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Parliament

Save yourself a fortune and just seal it, says Peter Young.

7 August 2016 | Stone Heritage
Save money on restoration of Parliament with consolidant, says Ultraseal founder
With Parliament planning to spend £4billion (and many expecting the final bill could be twice that) on the renovation of the Palace of Westminster, Ultraseal founder Peter Young has suggested...
Scottish heritage year

2017 will be History, Heritage & Archaeology Year in Scotland, with stories, stones & bones grants available from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

25 July 2016 | Stone Heritage
HLF money for Scottish Year of stories, stones and bones
Scotland is having a Year of History, Heritage & Archaeology in 2017, which has attracted backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).The aim of the designation of next year is to inspire people...
Floor Canons Ashby

This is one of SPAB's Top 20 floors. It is an Elizabethan flagstone floor in the kitchen at Canons Ashby. SPAB is running a campaign to increase the recognition of the importance of floors as part of the historic fabric of a building to prevent them being lost.

Photo: National Trust Images – Andreas von Einsiedel

7 June 2016 | Stone Heritage
SPAB puts its foot down on floors
SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) has started a campaign, called History at your Feet, to protect the floors of heritage buildings.SPAB has a statutory right to be consulted over...
 
Money for conservation

€1million allocated for conservation projects in Ireland.

2 June 2016 | Stone Heritage
€1million for heritage projects in Ireland announced
Heather Humphreys, the Irish Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has today (2 June) announced funding of €904,530 for 57 heritage projects under the Structures at Risk Fund (SRF). The...
More money for war memorials

The government has made more money available for the repair and maintenance of war memorials as the centenary commemorations of World War I continue.

17 May 2016 | Stone Heritage
Government provides more money for war memorial renovation
The Government has provided additional funding to Civic Voice, Historic England and the War Memorials Trust to ensure as many war memorials as possible are appreciated and cared for by their local...

Everything visitors want from a church these days.

16 February 2016 | Stone Heritage
People may be less religious but they like churches
While the number of people attending church services on Sundays is falling (in the Church of England, at least) more than half the UK population will visit a place of worship each year and most...
Want to work for English Heritage? Register online.
13 November 2015 | Stone Heritage
English Heritage invites you to join its conservation care programme
English Heritage, the charity looking after English Heritage properties and sites since the old English Heritage was split into two organisation (the charity and Historic England) in April, is...
Penrhyn Quarry at Bethesda is one of the main sources of Welsh slate today.

Penrhyn Quarry at Bethesda is one of the main sources of Welsh slate today.

3 November 2015 | Stone Heritage
Wales : World Heritage Slate
The Welsh slate industry was not entirely sure it wanted to be seen as a ‘World Heritage’, because the quarry operators consider themselves part of a thriving, modern industry. But it is...
Brendan Teasdale (centre), MD of Team Force Restoration with apprentice mason James Landless and National Trust trainee Alice Ward.
17 September 2015 | Stone Heritage
Team Force Restoration renovates the Tomlinson Library
After winning this year’s RICS Award for Building Conservation for The Black Barn in Northumberland, Team Force Restoration, based in Blyth, Northumberland, is now working on a careful masonry...
Clitheroe’s Palace of Westminster Pinnacle in the Castle’s War Memorial Gardens.
17 September 2015 | Stone Heritage
New Conservation Restoration Ltd will restore Clitheroe's Palace of Westminster Pinnacle
Clitheroe Civic Society is spearheading an urgent project to see the historic Palace of Westminster Pinnacle in the Lancashire town’s castle grounds repaired by Heritage Conservation...
17 September 2015 | Stone Heritage
Your chance for a life-changing Fellowship
Applications are now being invited for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) 2016 William Morris Craft Fellowship.There are only four on offer each year. They do tend to alter...
Antonia Hockton working on the reredos in her workshop and the finished work in the church.

Antonia Hockton working on the reredos in her workshop and the finished work in the church.

20 July 2015 | Stone Heritage
A new narrative in stone – a reredos for Great Bromley Church, Essex
by Antonia Hockton, July 2015The south light plays across the surface, picking out fruit from one of the trees that rest on the bank of a body of water, the river of life. The stone is Ancaster Hard...
Help Bobby Singh return to Nepal with £50,000 to help earthquake victims by donating at WeAreOneNepal.org
17 July 2015 | Stone Heritage
Industry responds to earthquake tragedy in Nepal
In remote areas of Nepal, where a 50kg bag of cement costs as much as 10 days’ labour, the favoured method of construction is two layers of dry stone walls with a core of mud, cow dung and...
Nigel Copsey demonstrates hot lime mixing during the Building Limes Forum event at York in May.

Nigel Copsey demonstrates hot lime mixing during the Building Limes Forum event at York in May.

17 July 2015 | Stone Heritage
Building Limes Forum takes hot lime message to York Minster
The use of natural hydraulic lime (NHL) mortars to replace Portland cement mortars used to repair ancient stone walls previously might have been as harmful to the stone as the Portland cement was....
The renovated cross.
17 July 2015 | Stone Heritage
1,100-year-old Mourne granite cross restored by S McConnell & Sons and Cliveden Conservation
Stone and conservation specialist Cliveden Conservation from Maidenhead, Berkshire, and Northern Ireland stone specialist S McConnell & Sons, with its heavyweight CNC machinery, have worked...

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