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WREN300 Live Stone Carving Competition 2023

WREN300 CONSERVATION-IN-ACTION SERIES Live Stone Carving Competition Wednesday 31 May – Friday 2 June 2023 Holy Sepulchre Church, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2DQ With: Building Crafts College, City and Guilds London Art School, Worshipful Company of Masons, Master...

Mission complete as Apollo lands at Stowe National Trust

After thirty-three years in the planning and crafting, a brand-new statue of Apollo, created and installed by our Cliveden Conservation team , has now landed at one of the National Trust’s flagship estates: Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire. The arrival of Apollo...

WREN300 Stone Conservation workshop

Wren300 is a tercentenary celebration of Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) – Mathematician, Astronomer and one of the country’s most distinguished Architects, best known for the design of many London churches, including St Paul’s Cathedral. The WREN300 Square...

Conservation of the Maiwand Lion

Reading Borough Council has appointed Cliveden Conservation to carry out conservation work to Reading’s most iconic monument, the Maiwand Lion, which stands proudly within the recently restored Forbury Gardens, a Victorian town garden. Over the coming weeks...

Conservation cleaning of Reading’s treasured monuments

Cliveden Conservation is carrying out work to four of Reading’s most treasured and historic monuments. The Queen Victoria Jubilee Statue by Reading Town Hall, the Jubilee Cross and the Zinzan Tomb in St Mary’s churchyard, and the Simeon Monument in Market Place are...

Award for Reading’s Abbey Gateway Hugh Faringdon Carving

Reading Abbey Gateway Hugh Faringdon carved head received a prestigious national award last week at The Stone Federation of Great Britain’s Natural Stone Awards 2022. The carved head, which was added to the gateway in 2021 to mark the Abbey’s 900th anniversary, was...

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