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Summer 2015 Past Present Future PAST PRESENT FUTURE The Newsletter of West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust and Worcestershire Building Preservation Trust Cost of Printing/Postage: £2.50 – Free to Members ___________________________________________ SUMMER 2015 see pages 4-7 Contents also include Lye and Wollescote Cemetery Chapels Open Day: report on page 3 Contents also include View From The Newsletter Editor Project Director’s Report Appointment of Glass Artist for the Chapels War Graves Walk: 16th August 2015 Bournville……Without the Chocolate! Gorcott Hall Visit Report “Touching History” ___ _____________________________________________________________________________ Company Offices: Adam House, Birmingham Road, Kidderminster, Stourbridge DY10 2SH Registered Company No. 1876294 Registered Charity No. 516158 VAT Registration No. 669 8183 73 WMHBT & WBPT Summer 2015 Newsletter Page 1 VIEW FROM THE…… WMHBT & WBPT NEWSLETTER EDITOR Projects Progress Reports by David Trevis-Smith, Regular readers of the Trusts’ Projects Organiser Newsletters will know that each one begins with a “View From The Work by Croft Building & Chair”. Conservation to deliver the West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust However those who read the Spring project involving the Lye and 2015 Newsletter and those who Wollescote Cemetery Chapels attended the Annual General building is making steady progress, Meeting will know that, as a result of despite a couple of unanticipated health scares, the then Chairman, discoveries; works are still on course Bob Tolley, has stood down. At the to be completed before Christmas. AGM the then Vice-Chairman, John Woodall, thanked Bob for his skills Asbestos revealed when removing and hard work over the years, which roof tiles and three long-eared bats was acknowledged by all present. revealed when removing one of the Fortunately for the Trusts, Bob has boarded-up windows, were our agreed to continue to serve as a unexpected guests. The former Trustee so that we can still take required removal and disposal by advantage of his knowledge and specialists, the latter required all experience. work to be stopped until the methodology for an ecological John has taken over temporarily as watching brief had been written and Acting Chairman and, while we approved by Natural England. search for a new Chairman, this is of Thankfully the delay was minimised course a very exciting time in the life thanks to speedy attention by our of West Midlands Historic Buildings architects at Brownhill Hayward Trust in particular, as it moves Brown, our appointed ecologist forward with its third “live” project at Middlemarch Environmental, swift Lye and Wollescote Cemetery processing of the proposal by Chapels. We celebrate this Natural England, and a pragmatic achievement with a special, all- approach by Croft to re-schedule colour edition for our Summer 2015 their work programme. Newsletter featuring a number of articles about different aspects of the Meanwhile the heritage-related project. Thank you very much for project activities are continuing your continued support. apace, as featured in separate articles in this Newsletter edition. Nick Hogben, Newsletter Editor. WMHBT & WBPT Summer 2015 Newsletter Page 2 The short-term restriction on access way, please contact John Woodall due to the bats caused a break in a (email: [email protected]; programme of school and college tel: 01384 292644). visits and came at an unfortunate time in the academic calendar. It is I’m pleased to say the pace is also hoped to pick this up again in the starting to quicken with our other autumn term, albeit the programme ‘live’ project, by The Worcestershire will need to be slightly different. Building Preservation Trust, at the Weavers’ Cottages in Horsefair, Our Community Facilitator for this Kidderminster. project, Carolyn Healy, is inviting people to get in touch who are Our architects, Rodney Melville & interested in joining a new ‘Friends Partners, have completed the of Lye & Wollescote Cemetery’. detailed design drawings and There are lots of ways to get Schedule of Work; these are with our involved; for more on this, Carolyn quantity surveyors, Austin Newport, can be contacted by email: to prepare the Bill of Quantities and [email protected] or tel: other documentation to issue 01952 433932. invitations to tender for the building work. Provided tenders are within Amongst other things, we’re hoping budget, the Trust will be able to let the Friends will be able to help with the contract with the aim of starting finding local venues willing to host work on site towards the end of this temporary displays about the project: year. an exhibition stand about the World War 1 book is already available, with Following on from fitting three new a second stand about the secure doors to the cottages refurbishment project currently being reported in my last article, a new designed. Please contact Carolyn if gated access has now been created you know of a potential venue or with space for a skip. This means venues. the next volunteer work party, th scheduled for Saturday 29 August, Following my request for help in the can focus on clearing the last Newsletter, I’m pleased to report accumulated debris from previous that a small team of volunteers came work parties and apply a layer or two forward with an offer to keep the of primer to protect the new gates. grass cut and the garden tidy The final work party in the current th alongside the Superintendent’s series is scheduled for Saturday 26 Lodge. This will help to create a September 2015; work parties run good impression when the time from 10am to 1pm. comes to arrange viewings for prospective tenants. A few more All are welcome to attend work volunteers would be very welcome; if parties, including family and friends. you would be willing to help in this Please bring along your own WMHBT & WBPT Summer 2015 Newsletter Page 3 equipment for gardening work (saws, point during the course of the work. cutters, loppers, rakes, spades, etc.) Not only did the contractors welcome and wear suitable clothing, visitors to see the building but they especially sturdy boots or shoes. also laid on demonstrations in the car-park by some of the specialist For safety reasons we have a craftsmen who are involved in the minimum age of 18 and to ensure project. cover under the Trust’s insurance policy all those attending work parties will need to be members of The Worcestershire Building Preservation Trust. New members are welcome to join the Trust at the start of a work party and, as a welcome gesture, membership from that date to the end of the current subscriptions year will be free of charge. To help plan each work Chapels Open Day 20th June 2015 party, please let me know if you’re aiming to attend (email: david@dts- We were first welcomed by Adrian solutions.co.uk; or tel: 07711 Mathias of Brownhill Hayward 601560). I look forward to seeing Brown, Project Architects, who you there. summarised the proposals, which will provide a suite of facilities for LYE AND use by Dudley Metropolitan Borough WOLLESCOTE Council Citizenship and Registration CEMETERY CHAPELS Services and, specifically, use by the OPEN DAY REPORT Registrar as a venue for weddings and other civil ceremonies. Then, following a health and safety More than forty Trust members and briefing from Croft’s site foreman, local residents were treated to a Andy Hutchings, we were allowed unique view of “works in progress” at into the site. Lye and Wollescote Cemetery th Chapels on Saturday 20 June In the car-park, Croft’s leadworker 2015. was demonstrating traditional leadworking techniques and their The contract for the building works stonemason was carving new stones between West Midlands Historic to replace those which were Buildings Trust and the principal damaged beyond repair. A contractors, Croft Building and representative from tile suppliers, Conservation Ltd of Cannock, Dreadnought Tiles, was making included a requirement that public replacement ridge tiles to match the access should be provided at some originals and visitors were allowed WMHBT & WBPT Summer 2015 Newsletter Page 4 and indeed encouraged to join in the showing how surviving pieces of process! glass were being removed from the damaged leadwork and cleaned ready for re-instatement into new leadwork. We were then free to look around the outside of the building while Adrian was conducting tours around the interior. Externally, the restoration of the weather-vane and spire had been completed and these now rose triumphantly above the scaffolding which still encased the rest of the building. Roofs had been stripped and covered temporarily in polythene sheeting. Croft’s stone mason carves a new piece of stone for the Chapel Repairs to stonework were in (above) and (below) a young visitor progress and Adrian had already makes a replacement ridge tile with explained in his initial briefing that a little help from the representative the overriding philosophy throughout from Dreadnought Tiles the whole contract was to retain as much as possible of the original fabric. We saw therefore that, although some stones seemed to be quite eroded, they were only being replaced where it was absolutely necessary for structural or weathering reasons. Ashmore Conservation Metal Smiths, who have completed the restoration and re-instatement of the weather vane on top of the spire, were working on the repair of the perimeter railings and glaziers from A small surviving fragment of original N. G. Beacham Stained Glass were glazing WMHBT & WBPT Summer 2015 Newsletter Page 5 Sadly, very little of the original glazing had remained intact but all surviving pieces of glass from the leaded light windows had been carefully numbered and catalogued in situ, and the damaged lights themselves then removed for repair or replacement by the glaziers. Project Architect Adrian Mathias leads a tour of the inside of the building Some compromises will need to be made to ensure the satisfactory re- use of the building.
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