Read more about my preventive conservation and artefact cleaning projects as well as my discoveries exploring historic sites, churches and museums.
Category: Artefact Conservation
Roundels are small glass wonders which display detailed draughtsmanship and rich subject matter. They use light as the main medium for enriching an interior and are a delight to behold in any setting. Over the years I have been lucky enough…
Continue reading Radiant Roundels: working wonders with glass, paint and light
Comments closedNot worthy of attention? Some stained glass panels and whole windows are dismissed because they have no clear subject matter, are a jumbled mess and are difficult to date. In this post I discover that a small, jumbled and confused…
Continue reading ‘But it’s only a jumble of fragments!’ – Investigating one stained glass panel
Comments closedCataloguing and describing all artefacts, furnishings and fittings in a historic church is no quick job! Many churches are hundreds of years old and have gathered monuments, donations of books and all kinds of things, from candlesticks to old tablecloths…
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Comments closedThe staircase at Goddards House was designed by architect Walter Brierly in the Arts and Crafts style. It is wooden and has a highly decorative banister, complete with finials, which, over the one hundred years of use, has accumulated…
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Comments closedGoddards House and Gardens, located on Tadcaster road in York, is a National Trust property which was once home to a famous family of confectioners: the Terrys. The three Rockingham vases date from between 1830-1842 and were manufactured by the…
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