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Conservation Management Statement Battersea Arts Centre First Draft July 2008 Conservation Management Statement Battersea Arts Centre First Draft July 2008 Haworth Tompkins Conservation Management Statement Battersea Arts Centre First Draft July 2008 Haworth Tompkins Ltd Battersea Arts Centre 19-20 Great Sutton Street Lavender Hill London EC1V 0DR London SW11 5TN All images Haworth Tompkins Ltd / BAC unless otherwise stated in Images List Battersea Arts Centre Conservation Management Statement 2008 First Draft 1. Lavender Hill, Principal facade 3 Contents IINTRODUCTION • Summary of BAC 8 • BAC’s vision 8 • Circumstances/Purpose of statement 8 • Scope of the statement 9 • Authorship, Stakeholder participation 9 • Implementation 10 1. UNDERSTANDING 12 The Place 12 The Architect 14 The Building 18 • The Municipal Building 20 • The Grand Hall 24 • Developments to the Built Fabric 26 • Development of the building as BAC 32 Social History 34 • The establishment of BAC 34 Battersea Arts Centre Today 38 • Cultural significance of BAC 38 • Current artistic programme 42 • The structure of the institution 44 • Commercial activities 46 • The relationship between BAC and local area 48 2. SIGNIFICANCE 50 • Architectural 50 • Historical 50 • Social 50 3. ISSUES AND OPPORTUNTIES 52 • Participatory Theatre 52 • Need to upgrade technical infrastructures 52 • Access/Health & Safety 52 • Town Hall Road 54 • Environmental Sustainability 54 • Wear & Tear to built fabric 58 4. CONSERVATION STRATEGY 60 Schedule of building fabric 60 • Exterior 62 • Interior 62 • General components 62 Relative Sensitivity analysis 64 Battersea Arts Centre Conservation Management Statement 2008 First Draft 1. The Grand Stairs 5 Appendices Appendix 1: Definition of a conservation statement by English Heritage 74 Definition of a heritage asset by English Heritage Appendix 2: E.W. Mountford - mini biography 75 Appendix 3: Transcript of the 1893 Inauguration Programme 76 Appendix 4: English Heritage Listing description 80 Appendix 5: Chronological list of social and cultural events affecting the building 81 and BAC Appendix 6: Chronological list of events affecting the built fabric 83 Appendix 7: Chronological list of Planning Applications & Listed Building Consents 87 as recorded by Wandsworth Borough Council Appendix 8: List of architects involved with BAC 89 Appendix 9: Project Directory 90 Appendix 10: BAC Press Releases since January 2007 91 Appendix 11: Contemporary Press articles on BAC 93 Appendix 12: Current plans of the building 98 Appendix 13: Hedley Merriman Surveyors Conditions Survey of the building 105 Appendix 14: Annexure 2 Works Programme 111 LBW Counterpart Lease of Battersea Arts Centre to BAC Appendix 15: Condition report Hope-Jones organ 115 LBW Counterpart Lease of Battersea Arts Centre to BAC Battersea Arts Centre Conservation Management Statement 2008 First Draft 1. The Cafe Bar 7 Introduction The organisation Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is a revenue funded arts organisation, founded in 1981. It has grown synonymous over the years with the building housing it, Battersea Old Town Hall, on Lavender Hill in southwest London. It is highly acclaimed for its innovative approach to theatre making and for the many successful artists who continue to emerge through its doors. BAC aims to create and promote exciting, high quality, risk-taking arts activity through creative collaborations between artists, staff and public. The emphasis is on theatre and performance, primarily on devised rather than script-based work. BAC believes in a multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach to making theatre and actively encourages artists to experiment and break new ground. BAC’s vision BAC’s mission is to invent the future of theatre. It has a vision of a 21st Century theatre in a 19th Century Town Hall; a theatre that will bring people together and create live moments that change the way we look at the universe and understand ourselves within it. BAC believes in theatre as a transformative and participatory experience that inspires individual and collective imagination. A dream factory generating the theatre of tomorrow, The Times. The purpose/circumstances of the Statement Battersea Old Town Hall is a handsome example of late 19th century civic architecture, designed with great care and craftsmanship. This conservation statement for BAC will be used to examine the architectural and cultural significance of the building, in order to provide a framework within which any future repair, alterations or additions to the built fabric should be developed. After facing closure at the withdrawal of funding and an increase in rent by Wandsworth Borough Council (WBC) in January 2007, BAC received nationwide support. BAC came to a new agreement with the council, securing an 125-year lease of the building, with the first ten years of that rent free, continued financial support from WBC and acquired new funding from other sources, including the Arts Council England. The Arts Council has always been supportive of the innovative work at BAC but they have come to champion the recent initiatives of the organisation, and in particular the idea of ‘Playgrounding’. Recently the first of BAC’s Playground Projects, The Masque of the Red Death, (MORD) was an seven-month sell out success. The promenade performance, a co-production by the theatre company Punchdrunk and BAC, used the building in an unprecedented way. Opening it up as one continuous stage, the production uncovered thirty percent more usable performance space at BAC. The performance served to strengthen an existing connection between the organisation and its home, the Old Town Hall. Decked out in Victorian splendour, MORD summoned up ghosts from the building’s past, heightening an experience of the building as more ‘itself’. This idea of the building returning to a more authentic version of itself, essentially as a Victorian Town Hall, has become one of Battersea Arts Centre Conservation Management Statement 2008 First Draft Introduction BAC’s key aims for development. A new, healthy and supportive relationship has grown from these events between BAC and WBC, English Heritage and the Arts Council. A strong shared vision and design brief for the building has evolved in collaboration with Haworth Tompkins architects who have been working with BAC since the inception of MORD. BAC have a 125 year lease of the building from the Council which includes a Works Programme detailing the maintenance work required over the next 10 years (refer to Appendix 14 for the Works Programme, Annexure 2 of the building lease). This document is necessary to ensure that due care and consideration is taken when making The scope of the statement and limitations of study This conservation statement (refer to Appendix 01 for definition of a Conservation Statement by English Heritage) is intended to describe the building, the organisation, its circumstances and aspirations, within its context as a functioning building and a heritage asset (refer to Appendix 01 for definition of a heritage asset by English Heritage), requiring both protecting and enhancing. The conservation statement will: - outline Battersea Arts Centre’s vision for the future, noting the problems and opportunities it faces in achieving its goals; - outline the history and the role of BAC and the building, giving the architectural, social and cultural context; - assess BAC’s major points of architectural, cultural and historic significance, as a whole and in terms of individual components; - look at any issues and vulnerabilities that the building faces, including current conditions of the fabric of the building and any actions needed for repair, conservation or restoration; - identify those areas which are under-performing or in need of repair; - identify the opportunities that exist for development; - identify the procedures required to implement the conservation strategies. Authorship, stakeholder participation, collaboration and consultation process Haworth Tompkins has researched and prepared the conservation statement jointly with BAC. Ongoing discussion with building users has informed both the initial assessments of the built fabric and its occupation, and the identification of opportunities for improvement and how these may best be implemented. Groups being consulted include BAC staff, visiting artists and the public, as well as BAC’s immediate neighbours. Over the past few years BAC and Haworth Tompkins have developed a relationship where the architect acts as a collaborating artist rather than an external consultant. Acknowledging the relationship with their building as key to their work, BAC have expanded their existing activities program of ‘Theatre, Participation and Events’ with a fourth strand called ‘Space’. Figure 1 9 Introduction This statement is a working document, to be reviewed, agreed, consulted and referred to by all members involved in the processes of conserving and changing the building. The involved parties are: Battersea Arts Centre, English Heritage, Wandsworth Borough Council and Haworth Tompkins architects (refer to Appendix 9 for a full project directory). Ownership of the Plan – who is responsible for implementing it The conservation statement is directed at a wide readership and will be of use and interest to anyone working in and using the building. Sections of the statement setting out specific policies should be regularly referred to by all those who make decisions concerning the building. The statement must be available, therefore, to all BAC staff and any contractors working on the building. All stakeholders involved in
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