DIRECTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICES, PLANNING CONSULTANCIES AND CHARTERED SURVEYORS EXPERIENCED IN HISTORIC/LISTED BUILDING WORK The Organisations below have paid to be included in the Directmy. Consequently, their appearance should not be taken to imply any endorsement or approval by the Association SUSSEX Douglas Briggs Partnership 3 The Avenue Chichester P019 4PZ Tel: 01243 530441 Fax: 01243 530452 Conservation Architects, Urban Designers and Town Planners. Specialist in handling development in environmentally sensitive areas or affecting Historic Buildings. Considerable experience of public participation, pedestrianisation of Town Centres, re-use and adaptation of redundnt buildings, development masterplans and land portfolio reviews. Established practical approach to the design and contract management of new buildings and the restoration and repair of old structures. WEST MIDLANDS S T Walker and Partners Architects and Consultants 68 Harborne Park Road Harborne Birmingham 817 OOH Tel: 0121-428 4282 Fax: 0121-428 3880 Consultants to the National Trust, English Heritage, and Local Authorities for the repair, consolidation, conservation and reuse of Listed Buildings and scheduled Ancient Monuments. Strategy reports prepared. Recent Commissions include Attingham Park (NT), Stokesay Castle and Clun Castle (EH), Ludlow Castle (Private). Tredegar House and Park, Gwent (Newport Borough Council). YORKSHIRE Wright Associates Stable Yard Chantry Lane Bishopthorpe York Y021QF Tel: 01904 707947 Fax: 01904 709928 Practice founded twelve years ago by Research Fellow in Conservation at University of York, to specialise both in new design in Conservation Areas and the archaeological interpretation, preservation and conservation of historic buildings and monuments. Architects to York Archaeological Trust. Consultants to London Docklands Development Corporation. Research reports on Conservation Staffing in LPA's and design in Conservation Areas for English Heritage. E.E.C. Conservation Award 1990. This Directory provides a service for Conservation Officers with Local Authorities, and others, when they are looking for specialist professional help with their conservation and repair of historic/listed buildings. A standard Entry (Six line information panel plus address details) in four consecutive issues of "Context" at £24.50 per issue costs a total of £98.00 plus VAT. Additional lines may be purchased at £1.50 per line plus VAT per issue i.e. £6.00 plus VAT for four consecutive issues. To be included in the next edition of this Directory or for further information please write or telephone: Context Publishing Department, Hall-McCartney Ltd., PO Box 21, Unit 7, Campus 5, The Business Park, Letchworth, Herts SG6 2JF Tel: 01462-675848 Fax: 01462-679356 BOOKS The northern counties are often thought of as the spiritual stronghold of nonconformity. The book illustrates many quite stunning examples showing a wide eclecticismof style ranging from the striking neo-Jacobean Congregational chapel, Lowther Street, Carlisle, of 1843 with galleried, barrel vaulted interior, or Lockwood and Mawsons' neoclassical Congregational chapel at Saltaire of 1859 with semi-circular Corinthian colonnade around the entrance vestibule, ro the heavy Romanesque of Cubitt's Baptist church, Jesmond, Newcastle-onTyne, of 1889. Alongside these outstanding buildings are an immense variety of essays in Gothic, simple classical or astylar vernacular. Impressive though the great urban chapels may be as grand architectural or spiritual monuments, the most striking images in the book are of small rural meeting houses, evocative because of the rustic simplicity of their construction, fittings and isolated setting. Redwing Chapel, Alston Moor, Cumberland, a simple rectangular building in rubble-stone beneath stone slated roof with original plain box pews or the Friends' Meeting House, Mungrisdale, indistinguishable externally from a cow shed, and with plain open backed benches inside, exemplify the type. The timing of the publication, roughly coincidental with the new arrangements for Ecclesiastical Exemption, is most fortuitous for Conservation Officers who must now add a knowledge of nonconformity to their architectural repertoire. The author is well alert ro the conservation aspects of his subject. In his introduction he refers to the Mr Stell looks with faint hope towards an improving public recognition of the architectural merits of chapels as creating a climate in which some of the better examples at least might be safeguarded for posterity. This is perhaps an unduly pessimistic stance. It is up ro Conservation Officers to take advantage of the new arrangements and the inspiration offered by Mr Stell's work to ensure that the proper protection happens and on a wide scale. The amended legislation has long been campaigned for: the opportunity it presents should not be squandered. Finally it is worth noting that a further volume covering Eastern England is in preparation. The extension of this scholarly coverage to another part of the country, also rich in non-conformist history, will be a publishing event to look forward to. Al. -r , an ,aywr ANDWHAT ABOUT MILTON KEYNES? The Buildings of England - Buckinghamshire. Nicholas Pevsner and Elizabeth Williamson. Penguin. 1994. 832pp. 132 b+w photos+ drwgs, engravings & maps. 12 X 22 cm. Hardback. ISBN O 14 071062 0. Price £30.00 ~------------------------------' embarrassment the size of 19th This is a completely new edition of Buckinghamshire and for one of the smallest counties. Its position on the semi-rural fringe of 'outerOuter' London provides a county of great contrasts encompassing not only the inevitable catalogue of magnificent country houses and churches; unspoiled small market towns such as Buckingham and Wendover, but also, for example, the 1930s Wallis Gilbert factories on the Slough Trading Estate and important modern movement houses. 36 EVEN MORE CHAPELS Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting-houses in the North of England by Christopher Stell. RCHME. HMSO 1994. xxi + 348 pp. 456 b+w plates. ISBN 0 11 300041 3. £65.00. When the previous volume in Christopher Stell's magisterial survey of nonconformist buildings (covering South West England) was reviewed in Context 33 it was welcomed for revealing the richness of their contribution to the architectural heritage. The present volume 1s a worthy successor, extending our perception and understanding of this varied genre to Cheshire, Yorkshire and counties to the north. It follows the same format as before of brief introductions, county by county, to the local history of nonconformity highlighting the most significant buildings, followed by an inventory of the most outstanding structures. Fuller coverage is given to the earlier buildings; the text is illuminated by photographs to RCHM's normal sparkling standard or line drawings by the author. century chapels causes their present custodians. Throughout the book he catalogues damage caused to the subject buildings through denominational indifference; unsympathetic adaptation to secular use; or the astonishing demolition of fine buildings subsequent to his inspection. Not all of these cases can be blamed on past lack of ecclesiasticalregulation. The crass conversion of the former Wesleyan chapel, Faddiley (Cheshire: plates 44 and 45), from spiky gothic chapel to something like a Swiss suburban house can only have been achieved with the benefit of planning permission. The new edition spreads its wings much further than before, and this is, perhaps, a reflection not only of the less catholic taste of its revising author; but also partly because of the explosive growth of interest and research into the local historic environment. The extensive list of acknowledgements and suggested further reading make this clear and the synthesis of the introductory essays all the more exemplary; combining scholarship CONTEXT 44
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