2 C O N T E X T 1 2 8 : M A R C H 2 0 1 3 Editor Rob Cowan Editorial Coordinator Fiona Newton 21 George Street, Louth, Lincolnshire LN11 9JU Tel 01507 602567 email editorial@ihbc.org.uk Editorial Board Fiona Newton (chair) Nigel Crowe (main features) Peter de Figueiredo (book reviews) Michael Taylor (main features) Rebecca Madgin Cartoons by Rob Cowan Context is distributed to all members of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. © Institute of Historic Building Conservation 2013 ISSN 0958-2746 Publisher Published for the Institute of Historic Building Conservation by Cathedral Communications Limited, High Street, Tisbury,Wiltshire, England SP3 6HA Tel 01747 871717 Fax 01747 871718 email context@cathcomm.co.uk www.buildingconservation.com Non-member subscriptions to Context Context is available to corporate bodies at an annual subscription rate, including postage, of: United Kingdom £60.00 Elsewhere £90.00 Subscription orders, together with remittances payable to Institute of Historic Building Conservation, should be sent to the IHBC Business Office at Jubilee House, High Street, Tisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6HA. The views expressed in Context are not necessarily held by the IHBC or the publisher. Neither the publisher nor the IHBC shall be under any liability whatsoever in respect of contributed articles. We gratefully acknowledge the support of firms whose advertisements appear throughout this publication.While every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this issue of Context is current and correct, neither the IHBC nor the publisher can be held responsible for any errors or omissions which may occur. Briefing Context Copy deadlines Context is published five times a year, in March, May, July, September and November. The copy deadlines in 2013 are: May, Issue 129 15 March July, Issue 130 17 May September, Issue 131 19 July November, Issue 132 13 September CONTEXT READER SURVEY Let us know what you think about Context. Please take a minute to fill in our survey. www.surveymonkey.com/s/contextsurvey Heritage of copper In the late 18th and early 19th centuries Amlwch, on the north coast of Anglesey, was the world’s leading exporter of copper. It provided a wide wharf with a road above it from which wagons tipped the copper ore down the rock face through timber chutes into copper storage bins on the quayside below. Over time, the supply of rich copper ore diminished and industrially active areas became derelict wasteland. The bin sheds decayed and became overgrown. The Grade II listed historic monument has now been incorporated into an Amlwch Port Visitor Centre by the rural development agency Menter Môn, the Amlwch Industrial Heritage Trust and Isle of Anglesey County Council. Design and conservation were by Donald Insall Associates. Only one historic timber chute remained on the quayside, and it was in a ruinous condition. The chutes were an integral link to describe and illustrate the system of tipping the copper ore down the rock face, so all vertical circulation within the visitor centre is by a series of oversized replica timber chutes, one within each bin, as originally. The new building is a bespoke steel structure, anchored into the wet copperstained rock face. Kelmarsh recycled The dating of Kelmarsh Hall’s roof timbers has revealed that a quantity of the wood was re-used from the hall’s predecessor, a 17th century manor house building that was part of the Northamptonshire estate. The roof covering on the Grade I listed James Gibbs hall is currently being replaced. Dendrochronology showed that the present covering re-uses a substantial quantity of timber from the hall’s original roof, known to have been put in place when the building was completed in 1732. A smaller quantity of timber is shown to have been re-used from the predecessor to Kelmarsh Hall, a manor house known to have existed in 1618. The roof was completely remodelled in 1820 when the original roof was raised to provide a second floor suite of rooms. The timber re-used from the Amlwch PortVisitors Centre: copper ore was tipped down timber chutes. (Photo: Dewi Glyn Jones)
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