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The
Prince’s Foundation for the Built
Environment is an educational charity which exists to improve the quality of
people’s lives by teaching and practising timeless and ecological ways of
planning, designing and building |
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The English
Historic Towns Forum (EHTF) has been supporting
professionals working in the historic built environment since 1987. The
Forum's events and publications focus on perennial and topical issues.
This collective then offers a strong platform from which to lobby
policy makers on behalf of historic towns and cities. |
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Built Heritage Conservation Training Centre-Bánffy Castle Bontida,
Romania The purpose of the centre is to promote excellence in
the conservation of the historic environment and specifically to teach
traditional building craft skills which can be utilised in the repair
and maintenance of historic buildings The Centre promotes a policy of
Minimal Intervention in dealing with the repair of historic buildings,
combined with a strategy of Compatibility in techniques and materials,
and the use of local resources. It promotes a philosophy of analysing,
understanding, and recording historic buildings before and during
intervention. |
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The
Transylvania
Trust is a non-profit organization established in 1996 to
promote and manage conservation and research of the built heritage in
the Transylvanian region of Romania. The built heritage of Transylvania
is vibrant and diverse, with architecture and landscapes representing
the rich history of many cultures. From 13th century churches, castles,
mansions and historic cities and towns to 19th century village homes,
many structures have survived wars, invasions and numerous migrations.
The Transylvania Trust's activities are actively supported by IHBC |
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The
UK National Commission for UNESCO
was formally re-instated on March 30, 2004 by Hilary Benn. It was the
culmination of the Campaign Group’s work since the termination of the
previous National Commission by his predecessor exactly one year
earlier. |
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UDAL is a network of
professional and campaigning organisations that was formed in 1997 to
promote the value of good urban design. UDAL’s organisations bring
together over half a million people who design, plan, manage and
campaign for better places. Their day-to-day decisions shape the urban
environment. UDAL is working to help them become more effective.
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SAVE has
been described as the most influential conservation group to be formed
since William Morris founded the Society for the Protection Ancient
Monuments over a century ago. It was established in 1975 - European
Architectural Heritage Year - by a group of journalists, historians,
architects, and planners to campaign publicly for endangered historic
buildings through press releases, lighting leaflets, reports, books and
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Since 1976 The Architectural Heritage
Fund (AHF) has operated as a national revolving fund
providing short term working capital to historic buildings preservation
trusts (BPTs) and other charities to undertake preservation projects.
To be eligible, the project must be undertaken by an organisation with
charitable status and involve a change in the use and/or the ownership
(usually through its acquisition by the borrower) of an historic
building in need of repair and rehabilitation.
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The
Ancient
Monuments Society was founded in 1924 for the study and
conservation of ancient monuments, historic buildings and fine old
craftsmanship. We are recognised as one of the National
Amenity Societies, and as such are informed of any application for
listed building consent in England and Wales involving demolition. |
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Historic
Churches Preservation Trust was founded in 1953 to help
tackle the damage and enforced neglect brought about by World War II.
Its income is derived entirely from voluntary contributions - from its
Friends, from legacies and from other trusts and bodies which rely on
HCPT's know-how to distribute money for churches to where it is most
needed. Major donors include the Manifold Trust, the Pilgrim Trust and
the Esmée Fairbairn Trust. |
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The Georgian Group
is the charity dedicated to preserving Georgian buildings and gardens.
Each year we are consulted on over 6,000 planning applications
involving demolition or alterations. We are not opposed to change, but
our intervention has helped protect many buildings from unsympathetic
alterations. It is often through our influence that a better solution
is found. |
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World Monuments
Fund in Britain has been in operation for 10 years as an
affiliate of the World Monuments Fund in New York, which has been
active since 1965. The organisation has raised awareness, funding and
contributed valuable technical and managerial expertise to saving
hundreds of monuments around the world. |
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National
& regional heritage conservation information links
page of Robert Gordon
University, Aberdeen |
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EUROPEAN
HERITAGE WEBSITE www.european-heritage.net
The 4th European Conference of Ministers responsible for the Cultural
Heritage organised by the Council of Europe in Helsinki in May 1996
recommended that consideration be given to: "setting up a permanent
information system (European Heritage Watch Network) to keep
authorities, professionals, researchers and training specialists in
touch with heritage developments in other countries, drawing upon the
Council of Europe’s earlier report on architectural heritage policies
in Europe..." to cover both the architectural heritage (monuments,
groups of buildings and sites) and the archaeological heritage. Future
inclusion of the landscape and intangible heritage sectors was
foreseen. |
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Building
Conservation is the Internet sister 'publication' to The
Building Conservation Directory, a full-colour, 240-page, printed guide
to UK-based specialist consultants, conservators and suppliers of
products and services for the conservation of historic buildings.
The
website contains a selection of articles covering such subjects as
timber decay and the use of lime mortars. It also includes two useful
databases providing contact details for all the main advisory bodies
and all the main conservation courses and training programmes in the
UK.
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ICOMOS is an
international non-governmental organisation of professionals, dedicated
to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. ICOMOS
provides a forum for professional dialogue and a vehicle for the
collection, evaluation, and dissemination of information on
conservation principles, techniques, and policies.
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English Heritage
is the Government's statutory advisory body on the historic
environment. It also manages hundreds of historic sites and awards
grants annually totalling £40M. The Website
includes English Heritage's register of Grade I and II* buidings at risk
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The
Images
of England project aims to create a 'point-in-time'
photographic record of England's listed buildings as well as offering
an introduction to the huge variety of listed buildings
nationally. Almost 180,000 images of listed buildings, taken
for the project, along with the statutory list descriptions, can be
viewed by visiting Images of England website. |
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HELM is
an English Heritage initiative aimed at decision makers in local
authorities, regional agencies and national organisations. The HELM
website is a fully accessible one-stop-shop for historic environment
information, training and guidance. |
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For
more than 50 years, the National
Trust has been helping Americans protect the irreplaceable.
A private nonprofit organization with more than 200,000 members, the
National Trust is the leader of the vigorous preservation movement that
is saving the best of the country's past for the future. |
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The Association for Preservation
Technology International (APT) is the premier
cross-disciplinary organization dedicated to promoting the best
technology for conserving historic structures and their settings. With
members in 28 countries, APT connects a network of architects,
conservators, tradespeople, consultants, planners, curators, landscape
architects, engineers, developers, educators, engineers, historians,
apprentices and students. |
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The
Landmark
Trust is an independent UK building preservation charity
which was founded in 1965 to rescue worthwhile historic buildings from
neglect, and then to restore and let them for holidays. The income from
letting contributes to their upkeep. There are now 178 Landmarks spread
across Britain, four in Italy and two in Vermont, USA. They include
follies, forts, manor houses, mills, cottages, castles, gatehouses and
towers. You can stay in any of these buildings. |
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ASHTAV
works to unite amenity and civic societies, parish and town councils in
small historic towns and villages throughout Britain to preserve the
beauty, distinctiveness, social fabric and vitality of our historic
towns |
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The
aim of the Natural Stone
Institute is to provide a knowledge base that will be used
to promote a better understanding of all aspects of natural stone, from
its quarrying to its use in the built environment - in both new build
and conservation activities. The NSI will promote good practice
through: education, training, research, technical innovation and
information co-ordination |
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The
Church
Monuments Society was founded in 1979 and offers a focus for
all who have an interest in church monuments of all types and periods.
It was conceived to encourage the appreciation, study and conservation
of church monuments both in the UK and abroad
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Resource for Urban
Design Information. (RUDI) is a multimedia Internet resource
for teaching, research and professional activity in urban design and
its related disciplines. Urban design in this context includes the
physical design, management, planning and use of buildings and
landscape in terms of their relationship to public and open space |
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The
Pevsner
Architectural Guides, published by Penguin Books, were begun
in 1951 by the architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83)
with the aim of providing an up-to-date portable guide to the most
significant buildings in every part of the country, suitable for both
general reader and specialist |
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The
Society for the
Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) was founded by William
Morris in 1877 to counteract the highly destructive 'restoration' of
medieval buildings being practiced by many Victorian architects. Today
it is the largest, oldest and most technically expert pressure group
fighting to save old buildings from decay, demolition and damage. |
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The Council for British
Archaeology works to promote the study and safeguarding of
Britain's historic environment, to provide a forum for archaeological
opinion, and to improve public interest in, and knowledge of, Britain's
past.
The
CBA hosts the Historic
Environment Information Resources Network (HEIRNET) which
exists to:
1.develop a strategic vision for UK information
systems relating to the historic environment which enables access, is
geared to the requirements of users and emphasises public benefit
2.review current developments in information systems, sharing
information on developing initiatives
3.encourage cooperative approaches to information strategy across the
UK, within the context of established and developing data and technical
standards
4.encourage efficient but effective resource use and development, and
economies of effort in data collection
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The
Association
of Local Government Archaeological Officers (ALGAO)provides a
forum representing archaeologists working for local authorities and
national parks throughout the UK.Its members are senior professional
archaeologists employed by local authorities to provide advice on
archaeological conservation and management.
The range of interest of ALGAO members embraces all aspects of the
historic environment including archaeology, built environment and
historic landscapes. The Association, through the component national
associations, and subject and (in Engand) regional committees,
co-ordinates and presents members' views on a wide range of interests. |
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The
Archaeology Data
Service (ADS) supports research, learning and teaching with
high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by
preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and
disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology. The ADS promotes
good practice in the use of digital data in archaeology, it provides
technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment
of digital technologies. |
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The
Civic Trust
is Britain's leading charity devoted to enhancing the quality of life
in Britain's cities, towns and villages: the places where people live,
work, shop and relax. |
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The
Bath
Preservation Trust was founded in 1934 with the object of
protecting the city's unique architectural heritage. Its first action
was to fight plans to pull down parts of the picturesque Georgian city
of Bath, England, to make way for a new road. The road was never built.
Since this victory, the Trust has saved hundreds more listed buildings
from demolition, and emerged victorious from many similar threats to
the city. |
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The Tiles and Architectural
Ceramics Society and the TACS Gazetteer is an exciting three
year project that aims to locate, survey and analyse the principal
British ceramic sites of all periods. A task never previously
attempted. In addition, links give access to other interesting ceramics
sites and you can now search the TACS database on line. |
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The RICS is one of the
largest professional associations in the world, with a membership of
some 100,000 comprising 75,000 chartered surveyors and 5,000 technical
surveyors as well as 20,000 students and probationers. Members are
based in over 100 countries and operated in many others. In as many as
50 countries, the interests of chartered surveyors are represented
through locally organised units that provide support to members and
promote the qualification to government and business. |
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The
aim of Green Space
is to be the UK’s leading advocate for the economic, social and
environmental benefits of better planned, designed and managed parks,
gardens and green spaces and for their positive contribution to our
economic, physical and spiritual health, to social cohesion and to
biodiversity. |
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Cultural
Heritage - a search engine about the conservation of
cultural heritage, restoration and maintenance of
the architecture, preservation of the urban landscape
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The
Victorian Society is the national society responsible for the
study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and other
arts. It was founded in 1958 to fight the then widespread ignorance of
nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture. Among its thirty
founder members were John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner. |
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The
Twentieth Century Society exists to safeguard the heritage of
architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards. One of the
Societyâs prime objectives is education, with education comes
appreciation. With conservation, another prime objective, comes the
continued opportunity for extending our knowledge about those buildings
or artifacts, whether important or humble, rare or commonplace as the
red telephone kiosk, that characterise the Twentieth Century in
Britain. |
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The College of
Estate Management is the leading international body providing
distance learning education and training to the property professions
and construction industry worldwide. The links below are to
dissertations that have been prepared by students of the RICS Diploma
in Building Conservation, at the College of Estate Management, Reading.
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The
Penrhos Trust
is a charity that has been established to rescue historic farm
buildings that are in danger of becoming lost and revive them with
ecological and organic food businesses. The Trust also runs seminars,
meetings, special events and courses to help teach and promote the
benefits of traditional farming and food production. |
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Maintain
our Heritage (MoH) was formed in 1999 to promote a new,
long-term, sustainable strategy for the care of historic buildings with
pre-eminence given to maintenance rather than sporadic major repair. A
shift to systematic maintenance will require a change in attitude,
policy and practice in government, the construction industry, the
heritage sector and historic building owners. MoH conceived, set up and
ran a trial maintenance inspection service, the Bath Area Pilot
2002-03. It is currently leading wide-ranging research into maintenance
issues in partnership with DTI, English Heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund
and others. |
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The
Theatres
Trust was established to 'promote the better protection of
theatres' and the creation of this website forms part of our on-going
strategy to disseminate information on the work of the Trust, on
theatre buildings, their architecture, design and protection. |
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The
Royal
Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
HAS A NATIONAL ROLE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL, BUILT AND
MARITIME HERITAGE OF WALES AS THE ORIGINATOR, CURATOR AND SUPPLIER OF
AUTHORITATIVE INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUAL, CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENTAL
DECISION-MAKERS, RESEARCHERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO THIS END IT:
Surveys, Interprets and Records the man-made environment of Wales
Compiles, Maintains and Curates the National Monuments Record of Wales
Promotes an Understanding of this Information by all appropriate means.
MAE GAN Y COMISIWN
BRENHINOL RïL
GENEDLAETHOL O RAN RHEOLI TREFTADAETH ARCHAEOLEGOL, ADEILEDIG AC
ARFOROL CYMRU FEL CYCHWYNNWR, CURADUR A CHYFLENWR GWYBODAETH AWDURDODOL
I WNEUTHURWYR PENDERFYNIADAU UNIGOL A CHORFFORAETHOL, A RHAI’R
LLYWODRAETH, AC I YMCHWILWYR A’R CYHOEDD YN GYFFREDINOL I’R DIBEN HWN,
BYDD YN GWNEUD Y CANLYNOL: Arolygu, Dehongli a Chofnodi yr amgylchedd o
wneuthuriad dyn yng Nghymru Casglu, Cynnal a Churadu Cofnod Henebion
Cenedlaethol Cymru Hybu dealltwriaeth o’r wybodaeth honno drwy bob
ffordd briodol |
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Icon
is the lead voice for the conservation of cultural heritage in the UK.
Icon's membership embraces the wider conservation community,
incorporating not only professional conservators in all disciplines,
but all others who share a commitment to improving understanding of and
access to our cultural heritage. |
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Bricks
and Brass Interested in Victorian and Edwardian houses? This
site is all about houses in London, England built between 1850 and
1914. |
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The Friends of Gwrych
Castle have built this web site to raise awareness of the
condition of the castle today and how it was in its prime. The site
includes Photos, Walks, Interesting facts, Memories, Ghost stories,
News and the present condition of the Castle. |
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York
Conservation Trust Limited - Initially Ings Property Company
Limited, was formed in 1945 by Dr John Bowes Morrell and his brother Mr
Cuthbert Morrell, both of whom had been buying medieval properties in
York for many years, which they restored and rehabilitated, together
with Dr Morrell's son Mr William Bowes Morrell. Their properties were
combined under one company - Ings Property Company Limited - without
expectation of profit until 1976, when they bequeathed all the
properties in the company to the current registered charity, York
Conservation Trust Limited. |
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The
Thorney Island Society takes its name from the island in the
Thames which was once no more than a dense thicket upon which
Westminster Abbey was first built. It is a conservation and amenity
group founded in 1985 - its objective being to save the library erected
in Great Smith Street in 1893. Today it continues to look after the
interests of both residents and businesses within the area and acts as
'watch dog' on local planning and development issues. The Society is
also concerned about the extension of conservation boundaries and the
scale and aesthetics of building programmes within its remit. Enquiries
to: The Thorney Island Society, 39 Westminster Mansions, Great Smith
Street, London SW1P 3BP |
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The
Conservation
Accreditation Register for Engineers (CARE) is a joint
scheme of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the Institution
of Structural Engineers (IStructE). The scheme is administered by the
ICE. The Conservation Accreditation Register for Engineers (CARE) is
intended to provide clients and other professionals with a body of
civil and structural engineers who are familiar with the philosophy and
methods of the conservation of historic structures and sites. It is
also intended as a means of encouraging engineers to raise their
awareness and standards by pursuing their continuing professional
development in this field. |
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We
started Lindum
Heritage because we care passionately about our historic
environment and want everyone to have the
best opportunity to explore
it. Lincolnshire is sometimes regarded of as the
forgotten county of England, but the truth is that it has an enormous
amount to offer in the areas of archaeology and history. Our short
breaks will give you the chance to get to know the city and
its surroundings while learning about aspects of the past that
you are interested in. |
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The
Building
Limes Forum exists to encourage expertise and understanding
in the use of building limes. It is a charitable organisation with no
commercial ties and has about 400 members in the UK and overseas, the
majority being actively concerned with the repair of historic buildings
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Welsh
Centre for Traditional & Ecological Building - Ty Mawr Lime Ltd.
Run a series of one day courses and on-site training days on all
aspects of the use of lime, some accredited by the University of Wales.
Course tutors are highly regarded in in both the fields of historic
building conservation and lime technology. |
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The
English Stone Forum is working
to
- encourage greater public interest in and awareness of the stone built heritage
of England and the threats it faces
- encourage the use of English stone for the public benefit and to
- ensure the availability of the stone required for the maintenance of the built
heritage and new build
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