Please join us for this exciting online event exploring some of the challenges and opportunities within the heritage world.
You are warmly invited to register for this event, where our speakers will discuss current or forthcoming conservation work and projects. Projects will range from the smaller (Milton’s Cottage) to larger (Piece Building, Halifax), with other speakers referring to National Trust projects in England and to ‘patrimoine industriel’ in France. Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panel, and may also submit these in advance via the opportunity so to do in the registration process.
Speakers
Simon Avery is the current Chairman of Milton’s Cottage – John Milton's only surviving residence, and the place where he completed his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost. A retired senior partner of Bell Cornwell LLP, Simon is a town and country planner and urban designer who has specialised in heritage and conservation since 1976. Key projects he has worked on include Westminster Cathedral, Shoeburyness Garrison, Park Place and Tower House Kensington.
SPAB Lethaby Scholar and architect Charles Bain-Smith, RIBA SCA, is the Senior Buildings Conservation Manager, Central Buildings Team at the National Trust (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and will outline one or two NT conservation challenges and solutions. He is a Royal Institute of British Architect’s accredited Specialist Conservation Architect. He also provides advice on architectural conservation across the Trust region. An active trustee in the Chillingham Wild Cattle Association, a charity whose purpose is to conserve 360 acres of parkland and buildings, he was one of the main contributors to “Chillingham, Its Cattle Castle and Church” edited by Dr Paul G Bahn.
RSA Fellow Mark Hopton joined Law and Dunbar-Nasmith in 1988, becoming an Associated in 1996 and a partner in 1999. He is a Fellow of the RIAS and is RIAS Conservation Accredited at Advanced Level, being also one of few architects in Scotland also to hold an MBA. He has led the Design Teams responsibility for successful major Category A Listed buildings conservation. These include the twelve-year restoration of Stanley Mills for the Phoenix Trust and the then Historic Scotland, He led the team responsible for conservation at Newhailes, at Abbotsford (winning a Europa Nostra award) and the Grade 1 Listed Piece Hall in Halifax. Mark has written Conservation Plans for Carlton Hill, Abbotsford, Parliament House, the Glasite Meeting, as well as Taymouth and Lews Castles. Mark served on the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland for four years and for six years on the Historic Environment Advisory Council (advising Scottish Ministers on strategic matters affecting the historic environment). He has served as a member of the RIAS Conservation Committee and as an RIAS Conservation Accreditation Assessor. He also served as a Commissioner of the (now former) Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
Paul Smith is a historian with a PhD from the University of Cambridge, in 1980. From 1986 up until his retirement in 2018, he worked at the heritage directorate of the French Ministry of Culture, with responsibilities in the field of industrial heritage and transport heritage. Since his retirement, he has become the general secretary of France’s national industrial heritage association, called the CILAC (Comitéd’Information et de Liaison pour l’Archéologie, l’Etude et la Mise en Valeur du Patrimoine industriel), which publishes the review Patrimoine industriel. He is also a member of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage and of Europa Nostra’s Industrial and Engineering Heritage Committee.
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