Brompton Oratory (more properly The London Oratory) is one of my favourite London churches. I have done much here over the years and Papers and Paints has produced specially-mixed paint for the redecoration. The...
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Nov 22nd, 2010
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St Michael and All Angels, Thornton
A church is believed to have existed on this site in 1219. The core of the existing church of St Michael and All Angels dates from the first half of the fourteenth century. The medieval church consisted of the...
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Nov 22nd, 2010
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St Yeghiche’s Armenian Church
I was asked to provide advice on colour and technical matters when this church was refurbished for the Armenian community. It is located in Cranley Gardens, Kensington, London and was originally built as St....
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Nov 22nd, 2010
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St Paul’s Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral was built in the 17th century and designed by Sir Christopher Wren. While working on the Tijou Screen at Hampton Court Palace I was asked to carry out a paint analysis of the wrought-iron gates...
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Nov 16th, 2010
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Christ Church, Spitalfields
Nicholas Hawksmoor’s famous baroque church had fallen into terrible disrepair and came within a whisker of demolition. The Friends of Christ Church was formed in 1976, but it was 20 years before a Lottery grant...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London
Far from being a brilliant white, paint analysis established that the surfaces in the foyer were painted in a very sophisticated manner in 1951. A deep red, a pale dull green and a dark brown were originally...
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Oct 18th, 2010
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Dirty Cherub at Christ Church, Spitalfields
A very dirty cherub, soon restored to his former self. See Christ Church, Spitalfields for...
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