Coventry participated in the first World Monuments Watch Day on Saturday 8th September 2012 with a children's stained glass workshop and treasure trail.
Watch Day 2012: Coventry’s faces
Tag: Projects
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Technical Case Study: Restoring Fame & Victory
Looking down over the Grand Staircase in the eastern half of the piano nobile is a large and magnificent ceiling painting of Fame & Victory by the Venetian painter Francesco Sleter. The painting was one of several on the theme of justice and martial success commissioned by Lord Cobham in the 1730s.
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Technical Case Study: The Dance of the Hours
The very process of conservation breeds discovery, and for Stowe the reappearance of the original Music Room ceiling roundel was a particularly significant find.
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Technical Case Study: Lighting
In April 2015 a large Adam style chandelier was carefully installed in the centre of the newly-restored Dance of the Hours ceiling painting in the Music Room, along with three bespoke glass and crystal lanterns in the nearby Large Library.
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Technical Case Study: The Music Room
The State Music Room is located on the piano nobile ('noble floor') of Stowe, between the Large Library and the Marble Saloon. It is lavishly decorated with panels of amusing and elegant grotesques and arabesques on the walls, marble columns and a fine chimney piece with carved decoration of musical instruments.
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Technical Case Study: The Stowe Lions
WMF Britain welcomed a milestone event in April 2013: the return of the Stowe lions. These magnificent creatures, sculpted in lead with extraordinary detail, have now been reinstated to the plinths they knew in the eighteenth century, ninety years after they were sold in Stowe's 1921 sale.
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Technical Case Study: The Marble Saloon
Recalling the great Pantheon of Rome, with its coffered dome, the marble room c.1772 is the one of the most striking entrance halls in Europe.
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Technical Case Study: The Large Library
Realising the idea of returning Stowe's Large Library to its original form was rather hard, since it was not originally one room but two when built in the middle of the eighteenth century.
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History of the house
The Temple family were the first significant builders at Stowe having acquired the estate in 1590, and they spent the following half-century as Parliamentarians consolidating their standing largely through juggling debts.
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Technical Case Study: The Heraldic Beasts
The most visible part of the restoration was not inside the church. Our scheme called for the reinstallation of four massive heraldic beasts, two lions and two unicorns, that were part of the original design.