Historic Churches 2023

BCD SPECIAL REPORT ON H ISTOR I C CHURCHE S 30th ANNUAL ED ITION 1 CONTENTS THE BUILDING CONSERVATION DIRECTORY SPECIAL REPORT ON HISTORIC CHURCHES 30th Annual Edition ISBN 978 1 912747 13 9 PUBLISHED BY Cathedral Communications Limited High Street, Tisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6HA Tel 01747 871717 Fax 01747 871718 Email admin@buildingconservation.com www.buildingconservation.com EDITOR Jonathan Taylor EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Emma Heard PUBLIC RELATIONS Elizabeth Coyle-Camp PRODUCTION & ADMINISTRATION Lynn Green Lydia Porter ADVERTISING Nicholas Rainsford Carla Winchcombe TYPESETTING xendo PRINTING Micropress Printers Ltd The many companies and specialist groups advertising in this Building Conservation Directory Special Report have been invited to participate on the basis of their established involvement in the field of building conservation and the suitability of some of their products and services for ecclesiastical buildings work. Some of the participants also supply products and services to other areas of the building market which have no application in the building conservation field. The inclusion of any company or individual in this publication should not necessarily be regarded as either a recommendation or an endorsement by the publishers. Although every effort has been made to ensure that information in this book is correct at the time of printing, responsibility for errors or omissions cannot be accepted by the publishers or any of the contributors. © Copyright 2023 Cathedral Communications Limited All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recordings, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Cathedral Communications Limited. COVER ILLUSTRATION Detail of a window by Veronica Whall at Maiden Bradley – see page 23 (Photo: Jonathan Taylor) £7.50 2 NEWS REVIEW 4 FUNDING CONSERVATION Luke March 7 FIRE RISK Geraldine O’Farrell 13 CONSERVATION SKILLS Training in the cathedral setting Michael Sheppard 17 THE ECCLESIASTICAL EXEMPTION IN PRACTICE Nigel Walters 23 VERONICA WHALL and the Somerset window at Maiden Bradley Jonathan Taylor 26 VERONICA WHALL’S WINDOWS AT TINTAGEL Jeremy Chadburn 28 LLEFA’R CERRIG A strategic project in northwest Wales to save five of Britain’s earliest Christian sites Janet Gough 33 ECO CHURCHES Restoration and renewal in a rapidly warming world Helen Stephens 36 BATH ABBEY Discovering the lost Anglo-Saxon monastery and medieval cathedral priory Cai Mason 40 USEFUL CONTACTS 42 PRODUCTS & SERVICES 48 SPECIALIST SUPPLIERS INDEX