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14 September 2008 | Stone Heritage
Retained facade : Eastbrook HallIt seemed like a good idea to retain the important Edwardian facade of Eastbrook Hall in Bradford, but as the building behind it was demolished to make way for a...
10 June 2008 | Stone Heritage
English Heritage are creating Europe\'s first all-encompassing register of a country\'s neglected or decaying historic heritage with the intention of introducing new ways to save it. The Heritage At...
10 June 2008 | Stone Heritage
WELSH//SLATE have supplied slate from all three of their North Wales quarries to give Caernarfon\'s Y Maes (square) a facelift. Sitting at the heart of Caernarfon\'s historic centre, the square is...
14 April 2008 | Stone Heritage
The draft Heritage Protection Bill was published on 2 April and immediately welcomed by English Heritage.The Bill puts engaging with the public at the heart of heritage protection, closes gaps in...
14 April 2008 | Stone Heritage
In preparation for the publication of the draft Heritage Protection Bill consultants Tuffin Ferraby Taylor (TFT) have restructured their cultural heritage division to give it a wider national focus....
15 March 2008 | Stone Heritage
North West restoration and conservation specialists Maysand have won a £500,000 contract to clean, repair and repoint the exterior of the landmark Port of Liverpool Building - one of the renowned \'...
15 January 2008 | Stone Heritage
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has earmarked £3.2million for the restoration of Bristol\'s oldest building, the Grade I listed but dilapidated French limestone St James Priory.The church,...
5 January 2008 | Stone Heritage
When it was built, the gleaming Portland limestone of the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields led to it being called ‘the white church’. It is an epithet that is once again applicable,...
5 January 2008 | Stone Heritage
For nearly three years stone and conservation specialists Stonewest have been working on the renovation of the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields off Trafalgar Square in London (see "return of...
10 December 2007 | Stone Heritage
One of the most attractive books published this year was Remembered, which contains the photographs of memorials and cemeteries included in an exhibition by award-winning photographer Brian Harris...
15 November 2007 | Stone Heritage
Although there is still scaffolding round the outside of St Martin-in-the-Fields, one of London\'s landmark churches on the north-east edge of Trafalgar Square, it has re-opened, marking the...