Main Gates Mary Stevens Park is a public park located to the south of Stourbridge, in the Borough of Dudley. It is approximately 13.65 hectares in area and contains a number of architectural features, including the...
READ MORE »St George-in-the-East, Stepney
St George in the East was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. The foundations were laid in 1714, the building roofed in 1717 and the church was finally dedicated in 1729. The new parish was created out of the Parish...
READ MORE »Marlborough Gate, St James’s Park, London
I was commissioned to carry out an analysis of the paint on the gates leading on to The Mall. View Larger...
READ MORE »St John the Baptist, Hoxton
By 1801, the population of the whole of Shoreditch (of which Hoxton was a part) had grown to 34,766, doubled to 68,564 by 1831 and in 1861 was 129,364. As the population grew the parish of Shoreditch was divided...
READ MORE »Pollok House, Glasgow
Pollok House was built in 1752 and designed by William Adam. It was gifted to the City of Glasgow in 1966 by Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, whose family had owned the estate for almost 700 years. I was...
READ MORE »Royal Hospital, Chelsea
The first stone of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, was laid by Charles II in 1682. The idea of a home for veteran soldiers was inspired by the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris. 476 pensioners were admitted in 1689 and the...
READ MORE »The Use of Colour on Architectural Ironwork, 1660-1960
This is a paper that I gave at an international conference at the V&A in 1994 on architectural ironwork. Papers and Paints can be found here: View Larger...
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