Thursday 23rd – Saturday 25th June 2016
Day School Friday 24th June 2016
12.30 pm – 5.00 pm Annual School Registration;
Worcester University City Campus, City Campus, Castle Street, Worcester, WR1 3AS
Check in at the Halls of Residence from 2pm.
There is a room where left luggage can be stored until you return from your tour.
Study Tours all depart from the Halls of Residence but some tours can be met later at different locations. Start times vary to provide options for those who plan to arrive later and each start time is given below.Please only book tours you know you can arrive in time to make.
Leaves from Halls of Residence at 2:00
People Power in the Eighteenth Century Hospitals, subscriptions and staff1767 drawing of the front elevation
Inside the Jenny Lind Chapel, built c1850
Boardroom with the over mantle explaining this was the room in which The British Medical Association (BMA) was founded.
The Hive
Leaves from Halls of Residence at 2:00, 3:00 and 4:00
The Cathedral
B. Stone yard & the Edgar TowerLeaves from Halls of Residence at 2:30
Tour of Diglis Basin and Lock Island - the canal, basin and river which was the significant means of transport for Worcester’s industrial products before the railways.
Taking in:
These are interesting conservation locations at a variety of stages of renovation from the basin where change is completed running through the Oil Basin where it is an ongoing process and the lock island where it is at the preliminary discussions stage.
Each presents a different set of challenged with, undoubtedly, the island being the most challenging because of flood and access issues.
Tour leaders: David Viner, heritage advisor at Glandŵr Cymru (The Canal & River Trust in Wales) and Audrey O'Connor, Senior Framework Heritage Adviser at the Canal & River Trust.
Leaves from Halls of Residence at 6.00pm
6.30 pm Tours of the Old Palace
7.00 pm Reception at the Old Palace & drinks
7.15 pm Welcome from the Bishop, West Midlands Branch and IHBC
7.30 pm Drinks and food
The Old Palace was the official residence of the Bishop of Worcester until 1842. The building was sold in 1846 to the Dean and Chapter and used as the Deanery. Later it became a Church House club and Diocesan Offices. Along with the Cathedral, it is the oldest building in Worcester, indeed there was a bishop living here before there was a King of England. The Old Palace also has many royal associations including Queen Elizabeth I who kept her Court at the Bishop's Palace in Worcester for seven days in 1575. King Charles I stayed briefly in 1644 and James II stayed at the Palace in 1687. The Old Palace became a Grade I listed building in 1954.
8:45-9:45 | Registration, Refreshments & Business displays |
9.45 | Welcome: Setting the Scene David McDonald, IHBC President, Chair for the morning session |
Session A: Past – Conservation as Action and Reaction This opening session looks at where conservation has come from and assesses where we have got to now. From its origins in antiquarianism we will take a whistlestop tour of changing attitudes to our shared built heritage, from William Morris and Alois Riegl, via the Baedeker raids and the Euston Arch, to the Venice, Burra and Nara Charters. This tour will examine the changing relationship between the conservation world and the wider public, central to which is the perennial question of ‘Whose heritage is it anyway’? |
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10.00 | Vox pop film clips. How I got into conservation |
10.10 | Conservation as a Reaction Nigel Walter, Archangel Architects From which academic reflection develops policy and subsequent action is developed by key people. Origins in 17th century, Riegl, ICOMOS Venice, Burra, Nara etc; Post WW2 reaction. |
Session B: The Challenges Before Us |
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10.40 | Keynote Address Loyd Grossman Overview of the big issues and challenges facing the Heritage Sector in the very different funding environment and economic priorities of the twenty teens and twenty twenties. |
Break for coffee, networking and business displays & stands | |
Session C: Who's City is it Anyway? |
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11.40 | Issues around 'People Power' James Simpson (Architect) and Euan Leitch, (Director of BEFS - Built Environment Forum Scotland) A general consideration of 'People Power' and linked issues in the context of a current case study of a planning controversy relating to the St James Centre proposals in Edinburgh and their wider and longer term implication. |
12.20 | Q & A |
12.35 | Introduction to 2017 School |
12.40 | Lunch Refreshments, and a chance to network and view the stands |
Session D: Present – People Power as a Change Driver People as Champions, Community engagement, Volunteers Mike Brown, IHBC Chair, Chair for the afternoon session |
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14.00 | Communities regenerating historic churches – CCT’s experiences Matthew McKeague, Churches Conservation Trust, Head of Regeneration |
14.30 | Made possible with volunteers David Viner & Audrey O’Connor Canal & Rivers Trust |
14.50 | Not the graveyard slot Sarah Hayes The Coffin Works invigorated by social media |
15.10 | Expertise and activism: Valuing inclusivity within the heritage sector Rebecca Madgin, Senior Lecturer in Urban Development and Management at University of Glasgow Rebecca will draw on two recent Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research projects entitled ‘How should heritage decisions be made?’ and ‘Engaging Youth in Cultural Heritage’ to explore the ways in which change happens in ‘heritage’, using instances of Do-It-Yourself Heritage activism to explore connected and networked approaches to change through collaborations between politicians, professionals and communities. |
15.30 | Q & A |
15.45 | Refreshments, networking and business displays & stands |
Session E: Future - People Power to Make and Break |
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16.15 | World Heritage site - good and bad John Rodger, Blaenavon |
16.30 | Crowd Funding Karen Houghton, Ancoats Dispensary e.g. SpaceHive |
16.45 | Hearth: conservation for the people, by the people, despite the people Karen Latimer ‘Hearth’ a Northern Ireland BPT that provides social housing - speaking about Heritage Benefits for People |
17.00 | Q & A |
17.15 | IHBC & Iceni Projects - Thoughts on the day |
17.20 | Close |
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17.30 | IHBC AGM |
7.30pm for Dinner at 7.45 pm
After dinner programme includes Gus Astley Student Awards, IHBC Marsh Awards & Entertainment
The City's Guildhall dates back to 1721. At one time it was the seat of justice for the city and housed a prison. It was visited in 1788 by King George III who declared it 'a handsome gallery' and presented the city with his portrait to commemorate his visit which can be seen in the Assembly Room. Described by Pevsner as a 'a splendid town hall, as splendid as any of C18 England' it gives visitors an insight into Worcester's rich and varied heritage.
http://www.worcester.gov.uk/guildhall
Tour leaves the Halls of Residence at 9.30am, Leaving Dudley with a dropoff at Birmingham New Street Station (3.20pm) returning to Worcester on the coach at 4.30 pm
Town centre regeneration
Originally a market town, Dudley was one of the birthplaces of the Industrial
Revolution and grew into an industrial centre in the 19th century with its
coal, iron ore and limestone industries with raw materials locally sourced bringing
immense wealth to the owners and significant changes to the locality and its
inhabitants.
Following the decline of these primary
industries and the relocation of its retail heart to the nearby Merry Hill
Shopping Centre in the 1980s, Dudley became significantly impoverished and lost
its reputation as the capital of the Black Country.
The Dudley Town Centre Area Development
Framework was adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance in December 2005
focusing on local community needs. In 2008, Brierley Hill was designated as the
new strategic town centre for the borough necessitating a transformation of the
town centre. However with the current tourist attractions of Dudley Zoo, Dudley
Castle, the Black Country Living Museum and Canal Basin (c. 600,000 visitors
per year) few make it into the historic town. Years of under-investment brings
considerable challenges and the authority’s conservation officer will brief
delegates about the regeneration
objectives.
Dudley Zoo
The Zoo site is located around the historic Castle and is owned by Dudley MBC.
The zoo has the world's largest single collection of buildings designed by the
Tecton Group led by led by Russian-born Berthold Lubetkin which were granted
World Monuments Fund status in 2009
The recent conservation of four of the
concrete structures was led by Bryant Priest Newman Architects Ltd of
Birmingham. Members of the BPN staff will give delegates a presentation about
the project.
The HER Survey ‘Buildings of Worcestershire
Project’ is a community project led by the Louisa Davidson of Rock Davidson
Associates [RDA] with volunteers from Malvern Civic Society for the Historic
Environment Record [HER] database in Worcester. The volunteers have surveyed
many buildings from the period up to 1885 over the last two years but many
others postdating this 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map were surveyed and
described separately by RDA that enabled RDA to put together a Heritage
Building Record of locally interested buildings. Most buildings are Victorian
Gothic and Classical Italianate but many are buildings from the Edwardian and
Arts & Crafts period and the 1920s and 30s/50s and 60s. The battle of the
styles and topography creates a problem when deciding on design references for
new build in the C21 in the town.
This walking tour in the Great Malvern
Conservation Area will look at many of the unlisted buildings included in this
Survey that are now on the HER database Worcs Archaeology & Archive and
Historic England’s Heritage Gateway but this tour will also include many of the
fine listed buildings, e.g. the Priory and Priory Gatehouse found in Great
Malvern, starting with the GDII Listed Great Malvern railway station, the
starting location of the tour. Great Malvern Worcestershire is a satellite town
8 miles south of the city of Worcester.
Tour Leader: Louisa Davidson MA [Dist]HistEnvCons BA(Hons) ALCM AssocIHBC is a practising part-time freelance Historic Building Conservation Consultant for Rock Davidson Associates (RDA) in the Midlands UK based in Malvern, and is an IHBC W Midlands Branch Member, Assisted by Jacob Rock RDA & Brian Iles Local Malvern Historian.
The walking tour starts at the entrance to
St Swithuns Church, in Church Street off the High Street by Superdrug, at
10.00am and finishes in St Nicholas, (the Slug and Lettuce) at 12.30pm.
During the Civil War, which impacted the city over a 9 year period, the city
was besieged and occupied three times by the opposing armies. Consequently, the
churches suffered artillery damage and ‘borrowing’ for defensive works. Other
priorities prevented rebuilding and by the 18th century repopulation
the nine city parish churches were dilapidated and unfashionably gothic - four
churches were rebuilt in the Georgian style over a 40 year period from
1735.
In recent times, population movement away
from the inner city and viability issues have arisen; one remains in parish but
two others have become ‘redundant’. The tour will therefore include both an inspection
of the buildings and explore sustainable uses.
St. Swithuns Church
The rebuilding was completed in 1736 to a design by
the Woodwards of Chipping Camden. Grade 1 listed, it was put out of use and was
vested in the Churches Conservation Trust in 1977.
Old St Martins Church
This was the latest of these churches to be rebuilt
and it was opened in 1772. Anthony Keck
was the architect. In 19th Century the parish was split with a new
parish being created in a suburb to the south.
The original church was closed and the new church dedicated to St
Martin.
St Nicholas
A city centre church, the principal parish church
of Worcester with a barn-like nave built to suit the fashionable Georgian residential
area of Foregate Street, yet with a dwindling and an ageing population it
closed in the 1980s and was leased to a brewery.
Tour leader: Will Scott was, for over 25 years, the City’s principal conservation officer. In retirement he became the Chairman of the Friends of St Swithuns which has developed a number of initiatives to care for the church and increase its visitor numbers. The lottery supported restoration of the organ and the current projects have arisen from ideas and pressure from this group.
The tour starts at the Edgar Tower, the
entrance to College Green from Edgar Street at 10.00 and returns there to
finish by 13.00. It will take almost three hours and will include some stairs.
The modern city centre of Worcester with
its commercial bustle stretches northwards from the cathedral for about a
mile. In the other direction, and
immediately to the south, lies College Green, the cathedral precinct, and a
collection of buildings housing The King’s School which occupies most of the
houses around College Green – a mixed assortment of nineteenth century villas
with fragments of 13th century fabric and grander eighteenth century houses.
The Birmingham practice of Associated
Architects (AA) has been working with the school for nearly twenty years. They
were involved in developing strategies for a master plan, several small-scale interventions sometimes contrasting
with the ‘period’ styles of the host buildings and more recently in substantial
additions to the school’s estate - all within the conservation area.
The walking tour aims to explore answers to
such questions as “How does it benefit an institution to work consistently with
one set of design professionals?” “Why did the school choose to commission such
artful buildings?” and “How might designers learn from the environs so as to
create such effective interventions?”
Because the school will be in operation on the Saturday morning the
numbers will be kept strictly limited and the route may be subject to change.
Tour leaders: John Christophers and Galen Bartholomew
Branch assist: John Kirwan