Keywords:
Historic buildings - Great Britain - Conservation and restoration.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the latest developments in heritage preservation, including 60 case histories of successful developments over the last decade and sets out an action agenda for the future.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781317799733
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1619355
DDC:
363.690941
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 After 1975: an introduction -- 2 The legal framework -- 3 Paying for conservation -- Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England -- Monuments -- Outstanding historic buildings -- State aid for churches in use -- Town scheme grants -- Conservation areas -- National Heritage Memorial Fund -- Architectural Heritage Fund -- Other public schemes -- 4 Inner-city renewal -- Introduction -- Glasgow -- Liverpool 8 -- Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter -- Nottingham's Lace Market -- Billingsgate Market -- Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, Wandsworth -- St Pancras Chambers -- Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington -- 5 Conservation in towns -- Introduction -- Frome -- Wirksworth -- Calne -- 6 Industrial monuments -- Introduction -- Stroud textile mills -- Saltaire -- Liverpool's Albert Dock -- London's Docklands -- Tobacco Dock -- New Concordia Wharf -- Butler's Wharf and Courage Brewhouse -- Gloucester docks -- Chatham Dockyard -- Battersea Power Station -- Dunston Staithes -- Ribblehead Viaduct -- The heritage of railway architecture -- Manchester's railway stations -- Bath, Green Park Station -- Brighton Station -- Shrewsbury Station -- Cambridge and Chester Stations -- 7 Looking after modern classics -- Introduction -- Voysey House, Chiswick -- Penguin Pool, London Zoo -- Silver End, Essex -- Hoover Factory, west London -- Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent -- 8 Country houses -- Introduction -- Cliveden -- Compton Verney -- Dingley Hall -- Gunton Park -- The Hazells -- Cullen House and Tyninghame -- Callaly Castle -- Castle Ashby -- Brocket Hall -- Calke Abbey -- 9 Rural buildings -- Introduction -- Speke Hall -- Barns -- Fisher's Pond Barn, Eastleigh -- Great Priory Barn, Panfield -- Harmondsworth Manor Barn -- Grange Barn, Coggeshall.
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10 Building in context -- Introduction -- St Bartholemew's, Bristol -- Puma Court, Spitalfields -- Richmond Riverside -- Bryanston School, Dorset -- China Wharf -- Winchester High Street -- Thorncroft Manor and Henley Park, Surrey -- Tancred's Ford, Surrey -- 11 High conservation -- Introduction -- West front, Wells Cathedral -- House of Lords ceiling -- Brighton Pavilion -- Alhambra Theatre, Bradford -- 12 Churches: a delicate balance -- Introduction -- All Souls', Haley Hill, Halifax -- St Mark's, Silvertown -- St Michael's, Derby -- St John the Evangelist, Reading -- St Andrew's, Wood Walton -- 13 The way ahead -- Generation gap -- Victorian values -- Antiquarian prejudice -- Nostalgia as money-spinner -- A lost generation -- The past is another country -- The way forward -- Notes -- Index.
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