Published articles

Conservation of reredos at St Martin, Exeter b/wFrom time to time, articles about our work are published in leading conservation journals and magazines.

We have selected the best of these here for you to download and read.

 

 

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'Protecting Churches at The Churches Conservation Trust'
Published in Building Engineer, July 2011 issue 

Dr Neil Rushton and Sarah Ronbinson explain the methods undertaken to protect churches

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'Repurposing Historic Churches'
Published in News in Conservation, No. 22 February 2011

Dr Neil Rushton and Peter Aiers describe the work we do to keep our historic churches alive and of use in their communities - actively seeking to contribute to community regeneration.

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'Gls, God and the Great Western'
Published in Cornerstone, Vol: 31 No. 4 2010

Conservation mason Andrew Ziminksi reflects on the personal histories accumulated
at tiny St Mary's Church at Old Dilton, Wiltshire, which dates from the 1200s.

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'The Places of Worship 2009: Hackney and Tower Hamlets' Project'
Published in Conservation bulletin, Issue 61: Summer 2009

The steering group for this project reflects on the limited resources available for the conservation of the heritage in the borough of Hackney and Tower Hamlets.

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'For the Record - York Holy Trinity'
Published in Cornerstone, Vol. 30 No. 4 2009

Advent in an ancient York church, which William Morris helped save from demolition,
without heat or electric light.

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'In the Footsteps of AR Powys - an Unusual Timber Conservation Case'
Published in Historic Churches, 16th edition 2009

Lynne Humphries looks into the conservation work carried out on the Medieval and 18th century timberwork of St Andrew's Church, Winterborne Tomsom.

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'In whom we trust'
Published in RICS Building Conservation professional journal, September 2007

Sarah Robinson talks about our conservation work  

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For more articles and news about our work, visit our News section.

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