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Public & Private Artwork Conservation
Posted: May 1, 2021Ian Clark Restoration is able to supply a multi-disciplined provider service for public artwork conservation Services include extensive conservation and logistics solutions -
Winchester College Treasury – Installation of Parthenon Frieze Casts
Posted: May 1, 2021Design, fabrication and installation of a bespoke hanging system for large plaster cast panels from the Parthenon frieze -
Houses of Parliament Furniture and Decorative Arts Historic Collection
Posted: April 30, 2021Extensive conservation treatment and restoration of two Pugin coat racks -
Shrewsbury Flax Mill maltings – Consultancy – Historic England
Posted: April 29, 2021Dithering ton Flax Maltings is an internationally significant historic site and has architectural, socio-economic and cultural heritage importance. Between 1797 and present day the site experienced 3 distinct evolutionary phases all of which have contributed to the archaeology and current identity of the buildings and their past use. Having been designed and built in 1796 – 1780 as a Spinning Mill incorporating an innovative internal iron frame the site was in 1897 converted and expanded to become a maltings which finally closed in 1987. The site then experienced a period of at risk uncertainty until the formation of a public – private partnership stakeholder initiative was tasked with developing a long-term regeneration project for targeted adaptive reuse to safe-guard the future preservation of the site, its context and physical assets. -
HMS M33 – M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy built in 1915.
Posted: April 29, 2021After 7 challenging months ICR successfully completed the interior conservation of this important historic ship. Working in close partnership with The National Museum of The Royal Navy and its project team, ICR endued cramped and logistically demanding conditions to deliver a bespoke low interventive conservation strategy which was ground breaking in scale and thought provoking in method. -
Mixed-Material Object Conservation
Posted: April 29, 2021Ian Clark Restoration has extensive experience of supplying mixed materiel and collections care solutions -
Middleport Pottery – Conservation & Collections Consultancy
Posted: April 24, 2021The purpose of this consultative report was to help further inform the project conservation management plan and the complimentary sustainable commercial and interpretive strategies being developed for the long-term preservation of this listed historic site -
Historic Royal Palaces
Posted: April 24, 2021Ian Clark Restoration were selected to support Historic Royal Palaces by undertaking the specialist conservation of the Pagoda metalwork as part of the extensive restoration project completed in 2018 -
Elmbridge Museum Discovery Boxes, Handling Collection Packing
Posted: April 20, 2021Repackaging of museum and replica objects for Elmbridge Museum Handling Collection for Educational Outreach (Roman, Tudor and Toys from the Past Discovery Boxes). -
St Machar’s Cathedral (Old Aberdeen)
Posted: April 16, 2021As part of 500-year anniversary celebrations at St Machar’s Cathedral Church (Old Aberdeen), Scottish Wall Paintings Conservators were invited to carry out conservation treatment on 48 heraldic shields and other painted elements of the oak ceiling. The ceiling decoration was commissioned in 1520 by Bishop Gavin Dunbar, whose shield can be found in the central 'church' line of the ceiling. St Machar's heraldry is unique - located in the extremities of Christendom, and despite being a Protestant church since 1560, the heraldic arms of the Pope still survives on the ceiling. The shields are arranged in three lines – one for James V and the nobles of Scotland, one for the kings and queens of Europe, and a church line headed by the Pope. The ceiling and accompanying frieze had been heavily restored and overpainted by the Victorians. More recently, they had been treated by Historic Scotland's (now HES) conservators in1990. Over the past couple of decades a coating of white efflorescence had developed on the ceiling/frieze surfaces, and there was concern that this may be mold or fungus growth.