Casework
Barn Great Tomkyns Farm Upminster EssexAt the end of the summer school term hoards of 15-year-olds are released into the community to gain some experience the real world. The Society has accommodated one or two this year, and also one placement from a slightly older age bracket. Through The Heritage Alliance, the Society was approached to help with a new scheme run by the Industry and Parliament Trust. The scheme aims to link MPs with organisations whose work interests them. MPAndrew Rosindell asked to visit the SPAB as well as the War Memorials Trust. We met Mr Rosindell for a morning and
explained the SPAB’s work and concerns. He seemed interested and appreciative, and offered to ask a question in Parliament about any issues of serious concern to the Society. Mr Rosindell’s constituency is Romford,
formerly in Essex, and now part of the London Borough of Havering. One of his concerns, Mr Rosindell
explained, was the engulfment and loss of identity of areas on the fringes of the capital. Havering has relatively few buildings that fall within the Society’s period of interest, but it does have a small number of more ancient structures that survive from before the period of London’s advance. Among them is the grade II* medieval barn at Great Tomkyns, Upminster. The barn has been on the English Heritage
At Risk register, and a previous scheme for repair and re-use was refused, so we were pleased to see a recent application for the building which included a range of modest and conservative repairs and – for the present – no linked proposals to change the barn’s use.
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It is all too rare for the Society to see such carefully considered and respectful proposals as were those presented for the installation of a glass screen and doors within the inner arch of the south doorway at St James’s, Louth – “one of the most majestic English parish churches” (Pevsner). Volunteer guides welcome visitors as they
Church of St James Louth Lincolnshire
St James’s,
Louth – hailed by Pevsner as
one of the finest
of English parish churches.
The SPAB has
enter through the Victorian south doors, which are open in the summer and closed, but not locked, in the winter. Less intrepid visitors can be inhibited by the closed doors during the
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been impressed by plans for the installation of a
glass screen and doorswithin the inner arch of the south doorway (pictured right)
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