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Annual Review to 31St January 2019 Annual Review 1 February 2018 – 31 January 2019 Company details and officers Contents Bath Preservation Trust Limited Chairman’s Report 4 Registered Office No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR Chief Executive’s Report 6 Charity Registered No 203048 Obituaries 2018-2019 7 Company Registered No 294789 Tel No: +44 (0)1225 338727 Architecture and Planning Committee 8 www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk The Environs of Bath Sub Committee 23 Patron His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales KG Vice-Presidents Adam Fergusson Bath Preservation Trust Museums – Overview 24 The Rt Hon. The Lord Patten of Barnes CH PC BPT Curatorial Overview 26 Trustees No.1 Royal Crescent 28 Chairman Thomas Sheppard Diane Aderyn OBE Museum of Bath Architecture 32 Julie Finch Beckford’s Tower and Museum 35 Peta Hall Bruce Haines Herschel Museum of Astronomy 38 Robert Hellard Colin Johnston Learning and Engagement at the Trust’s Museums 40 Rachel Johnston Tom Marshall Marketing and Social Media 42 Simon Morray-Jones Membership and Trust Tours 43 Professor Robert Tavernor Victoria Thornton OBE World Heritage Site Enhancement Fund 45 Mark Wilson Jones Overview of the Trust’s Finances 47 Chief Executive Caroline Kay Legal Advisors Stone King LLP, Bath Summary Financial Information for the Year Ended 31 January 2019 49 Bankers CAF Bank Ltd, Kent Lloyds, Bath Auditors Bishop Fleming LLP, Bristol Financial Advisors Quilter Cheviot, Bristol Legal Status Company Limited by guarantee governed by the provisions in its Articles of Association Bath Preservation Trust is also sole trustee of the Beckford Tower Trust and the Herschel House Trust Cover image: Peter Brown’s painting of Bath Cricket Club. The club’s car park was the subject of a controversial student accommodation planning application which unfortunately was approved by B&NES Planning Committee (see p 9). Image by kind permission of Peter Brown 2 3 Chairman’s Report: A legacy for the future This new initiative is only possible because of two Americans, Carl and Jeannette Mays, who were regular visitors to Bath from their home in the United States. Carl and Jeannette developed The Bath Preservation Trust was established in 1934 to a strong love for the city and also a lasting friendship with Trust members Paul and Gillian Sladen. campaign against short-sighted plans for the car which When Carl, himself a conservation architect, died last year his will left a substantial sum to the threatened the unique Georgian city of Bath. In part it was the Bath Preservation Trust. In making his will Carl was guided and supported by Paul and Gillian as Trust’s response to the proposed demolition of part of the he wanted his legacy to further his personal lifelong interest in conservation architecture and to upper town in 1934 and its subsequent opposition to the support students whose commitment to that discipline he saw as crucial to assuring the demolition of many more listed buildings that allows Bath to maintenance of our architectural heritage. He chose the Bath Preservation Trust because he was be the only whole city in the UK afforded World Heritage a great supporter of our work and wanted to help us do more. I am sure that our future interns Status. We now live in more complicated times and frequently will be grateful to Carl and Jeannette Mays and we will be using their names for the fund they we need to anticipate issues as well as react to them. As part have left us. of this year’s work the staff and trustees have taken time from We understand that it may often be difficult to find the cash to provide meaningful support our day-to-day business to think and plan for the future. The during one’s lifetime but Carl has shown us what an extraordinary difference a legacy can make task for the Trustees has been to imagine the challenges and in planning for the future. It may well be that, until now, you had not thought of how you could issues for our city in 2029 and how the Trust will be ready to help us by leaving us a legacy in your will. You could make a real difference to something you respond. I hope I will be able to share some of our thoughts care about as a Member of the Trust. If you would like to speak to any of us about what you and ideas at our AGM in July. might like to do please do contact us. The Trust’s charitable objects are to encourage and support As you can see from this report the Trust has also had a full and busy year and I am grateful to the conservation, evolution and enhancement of Bath and its environs within a framework all our staff and volunteers who have made so much possible. appropriate to both its historic setting and its sustainable future and to provide educational resources that focus on the architectural and historic importance of the City. Thomas Sheppard We are already well used to finding engaging ways to explain the importance and relevance of the city’s heritage by using the four museums and also by working with local schools through our education programme. As in 1934, it is important that individuals care about what may be happening to our city and that the Council is well advised by engaged and experienced planning Buckingham Palace Garden Party professionals. One of the challenges for the future is the financial pressures on all Local Authorities as their central funding is cut; B&NES have a planning and historic environment team On 22 May 2018 and in perfect weather, five longest serving representatives (Caroline that is stronger than some cities, but they are not immune from these cash pressures.It is Kay, Joanna Robinson, Ann Godrey, Pip Campbell and Amy Frost – not pictured) of Bath important to our built heritage that architecture and planning students are encouraged to Preservation Trust went to the Prince of Wales’ 70th Birthday Garden Party at Buckingham consider a career in conservation and heritage but the financial pressures may make it harder for Palace. HRH Prince Charles is Patron of over 420 charities, the oldest patronage being them to get that first job. The Trust already takes interns into our campaigning work but we now Bath Preservation Trust, which he has been Patron of since 1973. The Duke and Duchess see we might have a wider role in helping newly qualified heritage students. of Sussex accompanied HRH Prince Charles, only a few days after their wedding so there The Trustees have in 2018 been given a marvellous opportunity to formalise our annual was a real sense of celebration for everyone. internship programme to give high quality students that first step on the employment ladder. We are very lucky in Bath because both of our city’s universities have excellent degree courses, as of course do a number of other institutions, so we will have no difficulty in finding talented candidates. We are intending to create a paid internship role to work with our planning and conservation team. This role will give that valuable and necessary first job and also practical work experience which facilitates entry into the sector on a more permanent basis. We also want to establish our own annual conference in Bath for conservation architecture and planning professionals and students who have “passed through BPT” which will speak about their experience in the wider sector. We should be able to start this initiative reasonably soon, since we already have interns who have worked with us and are now an interesting ‘diaspora’ of planning consultants, local authority planning officers and a senior officer of SPAB – amongst others. We would like to link this alumni group of our interns to us and to each other to provide them with support and to build their networks. This is a very important project to help make sure there are properly trained planners and heritage architects who understand the importance of our country’s built heritage. 4 5 Chief Executive’s Report Obituaries 2018–2019 2018 was a confident and consolidating year for the Trust. Peter Carey 1951-2018 Although our focus is external – the protection and The world of architectural conservation is built upon the dedication of passionate people and it preservation of the built environment and surrounding was with great sadness this summer that we lost one of its most enthusiastic devotees, Peter countryside of Bath – we do also have four listed buildings in Carey. Elected as a Lethaby Scholar by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in our care and we do also have to look after these. Our Trustees 1977, Peter held the SPAB principles close as he sought to find new and respectful solutions to were able to commit to a level of investment in our buildings adapting and restoring historic buildings. In the mid-1980s he began working with the and also in our income-generating infrastructure. The decision architectural practice of Donald Insall and in 1987 moved to Bath. Peter’s work assisting David to take one of our let properties, the Lower Schoolhouse, back Brain & Partners in the city brought him into contact with Bath Preservation Trust, and a tenure in hand was done to facilitate engagement with the public in sitting on the BPT Architectural Committee. Peter’s knowledge and interest in the redundant our campaigning work by providing a more accessible drop-in spas of Bath drove him to join forces with Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and navigate the Thermae Bath service and to draw that work closer to the Museum of Bath Spa project.
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