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Lews Castle, Morning Room (Stornoway, Outer Hebrides) – revealing, conserving and restoring Victorian murals scheme
Posted: January 2, 2021Lews Castle was built in the 1840s as the country seat for Sir James Matheson with his fortune made from the Chinese opium trade. In 1918 the castle was bought by industrialist Lord Leverhulme, who gifted it to the people of Stornoway parish in 1923. However, Lews Castle gradually fell into disrepair and had been unoccupied since the late 1990s. As part of development plans to renovate the castle as a hotel, museum and cultural centre, Western Isles Council (Comhairle nan Eilean Siar) commissioned Scottish Wall Paintings Conservators to uncover, conserve and restore the remains of an elaborate Victorian murals scheme in the Morning Room. -
McEwan Hall (The University of Edinburgh)
Posted: January 2, 2021The McEwan Hall is the University of Edinburgh's Graduation Hall and principal ceremonial space. The category A-listed building was designed by Sir Rowand Anderson in 1896-7. The interior is built in Italian Renaissance style, and features mural decoration by William Mainwaring Palin. As part of refurbishment and extension of the building, Scottish Wall Paintings Conservators were commissioned to carry out conservation works on the extensive murals scheme in the Main Hall, Galleries, Dome and Dignitaries Staircase. -
Survey of the rock-cut painted churches of Tigray, Ethiopia
Posted: December 15, 2020A comprehensive technical and condition survey of wall paintings in the rock-cut churches of Tigray, Ethiopia, carried out for the Ethiopian Heritage Fund, with funding from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung -
Westminster Abbey, Triforium sculpture
Posted: December 15, 2020Technical investigation and cleaning of 13th-century sculptured stone corbels -
Black and White House Museum, Hereford
Posted: December 14, 2020Conservation and cleaning of 16th/17th-century wall paintings -
Church of St Peter, Birstall, West Yorkshire
Posted: December 13, 2020Conservation of the Frampton wall painting -
Royal Chelsea Hospital, London
Posted: December 13, 2020Great Hall mural: technical and condition investigations, environmental monitoring programme, and monitoring and assessment of effects of surface contamination -
Cothay Manor, Somerset
Posted: December 12, 2020Conservation, technical examination and analysis, and interpretation of the medieval wall paintings -
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Berwick, East Sussex
Posted: December 11, 2020Conservation and cleaning of the Bloomsbury Group wall paintings -
Manx Giant Deer
Posted: December 2, 2020Conservation of a giant deer skeleton including removal of a shellac varnish through laser ablation