I recently undertook a survey of the remarkable wall paintings at The Painted Room - a rare survival of domestic Elizabethan decoration dating to around 1570–1580. The room originally formed part of the historic Crown Tavern, reputedly visited [...]
This summer, I had the pleasure of returning to the three Fred Millett murals, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, at St Crispin’s School, Wokingham – thirteen years since I last worked on them. In 2011 and 2012, the Perry [...]
The Gilbert Spencer paintings at Holywell Manor, Balliol College, Oxford depict the Foundation legend of Balliol. They were painted between 1934 and 1936 when Spencer was a student at the college. The paintings cover all four walls of [...]
I undertook two phases of work at a grade II* listed 17th century Cotswold manor house in spring and summer 2022, following a conservation assessment of the wall paintings in the western of the manor house’s two gatehouses [...]
Last month, when site work and travel were still a reality I worked on a fascinating conservation project on domestic wall paintings in a house in a village outside Oxford. Cromwell House dates from around 1600 and is [...]
This autumn I have been involved in the wall paintings conservation project in the historic Stratford on Avon Guild Chapel for the Perry Lithgow Partnership. This follows on from the project at the adjoining Guildhall earlier this year Wall [...]
As part of the 400 year anniversary events to mark Shakespeare's death, a major conservation and restoration project has been on going in the 15th century Guildhall in Stratford on Avon, with the restored building to open as [...]
Having just been writing about the conservation of a 1940s Annunciation, Award Win For Lost Wall Paintings, I was reminded of a conservation project, for Tobit Curteis Associates, a couple of years ago on a 14th century [...]
The conservation project for Tobit Curties Associates, undertaken in late 2014, at St Martin's Church Bilborough, on the damaged and partially lost 1940s Evelyn Gibbs wall paintings, has won the 2015 SPAB John Betjeman Award. A little article [...]
This was a conservation project in summer 2015, focusing on the stabilisation and uncovering of c16th wall paintings in Ellys Manor House in Lincolnshire. The upper floors of the former merchant's house are extensively decorated with early [...]
