Editor Rob Cowan Editorial Coordinator Michael Taylor, ihbceditorialboard@gmail.com Editorial Board Tom Copp Nigel Crowe Peter de Figueiredo (book reviews) Rebecca Madgin Andrew McClelland Fiona Newton Louise Priestman Gordon Sorensen Jonathan Taylor Michael Taylor (chair) Cartoons by Rob Cowan Context is distributed to all members of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. © Institute of Historic Building Conservation 2022 ISSN 0958-2746 Publisher Cathedral Communications Limited, High Street, Tisbury,Wiltshire, England SP3 6HA 01747 871717 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 Context on-line archive Past issues of Context can be viewed on the IHBC website. The archive provides a searchable database and reference for key articles. See www.ihbc.org.uk/page55/ context_archive. 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. Context themes and copy deadlines Context is published four times a year in March, June, September and December. The next three themes and copy deadlines are: The IHBC at 25, December, issue 174 (7 October) East Anglian coast, March, issue 175 (13 January) World Heritage Sites, June, issue 176 (7 April) Please contact Michael Taylor at ihbceditorialboard@gmail.com to discuss any editorial submissions or for information about the Context editorial board. 2 C O N T E X T 1 7 3 : S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 2 Briefing IHBC north west award Paul Hartley writes: The IHBC NorthWest Branch Conservation Award 2021 has been awarded to the Mount, Fleetwood. Fleetwood developed as new town from the 1830s to the designs of architect Decimus Burton. The public gardens forming the Mount were built on the largest sandhill in the area. They act as the focal point of the town plan and offer spectacular views across Morecambe Bay to the Lake District. The registered historic park and garden contain two Grade II listed buildings, the Lodge and the Pavilion. Led by Purcell, these buildings have been conserved through a programme of repair and restoration to create public spaces, including an education centre, exhibition space, wedding venue and function spaces. Discreet conservation works included the challenging restoration of external timber balustrading to the Pavilion. The Lodge has benefited from access improvements, the removal of a substation and its relocation to a secluded area of the park, and repair and restoration of elevations, helping to reinstate visual links to the gardens. The works to the Lodge and Pavilion comprise a second phase of a wider project to restore the gardens and complement an extensive programme of The Pavilion at the Mount, Fleetwood, previously functioned as an observatory and signalling point. (Photo: Nick Harrison)
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