Editor Rob Cowan Editorial Coordinator Michael Taylor, ihbceditorialboard@gmail.com Editorial Board Nigel Crowe Aimée Felton Peter de Figueiredo (book reviews) Rebecca Madgin Duncan McCallum Fiona Newton 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 2023 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: Hadrian's Wall, March, issue 179 (22 January) Built and natural environment interface, June, issue 180 (22 March) Urban housing, September, issue 181 (22 July) Please contact Michael Taylor at ihbceditorialboard@gmail.com to discuss any editorial submissions or for information about the Context editorial board. 2 CONTEXT 178 : DECEMBER 2023 Briefing Heritage funding Twelve heritage buildings have been awarded a share of £12.2 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. They include the Grade II* listed Cardiff Market (pictured), which opened in 1891. The market’s structure will be restored, reducing energy costs, and the project will work with market traders to care for heritage stalls, and present the market’s historic significance. The Ice House in Great Yarmouth, which was once used to house freshly caught seafood to be transported to London’s Billingsgate fish market, will be transformed into the UK’s Centre of Excellence in Outdoor Circus and Arts. The Strand Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland’s last standing picture house, will have its 1930s architectural features and decor restored. Twenty years of modern Kaunas Unesco has listed the modern architecture of the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, as a world heritage site (Modern Kaunas, the architecture of optimism, 1919–1939). The experts who drafted the application were led by Marija Drėmaitė of the faculty of history at Vilnius University. ‘From now on, this architecture will be considered a characteristic example of the modernisation of the whole of Eastern and Central Cardiff Market: the National Lottery Heritage Fund will support its restoration. The neoclassical Bank of Lithuania building in Kaunas dates from 1928. Buildings in the countryside Vernacular survivals Rural buildings at risk The meaning of tithe barns Celebrating the urban fringe No 178 December 2023 Institute of Historic Building Conservation Cover: A house in rural Surrey (Photo: Rob Cowan)
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