Heritage Consultant
For liturgical and practical reasons, there is an increasing number of parish councils in England wanting to undertake an internal reordering of their church, particularly in the nave. This consultancy service offered by Dr Charles Tracy is available to assist architects and parish church wardens to calculate the effects of making such changes in respect of the overall historical and artistic importance of their building.
There is a need to measure any potential deficits arising from any such action. Moreover, in potentially sensitive cases, there will be a requirement on the part of English Heritage and others, for there to be established from the outset the current significance of the church and its contents.
This is where the services of an expert is needed to make a significance assessment before the work can be sanctioned. Dr Tracy is a leading authority in this area of scholarship, having published widely on church furniture of all kinds in both Britain and the continent of Europe.
Significance Assessments
Amongst others, significance assessments have been carried out by this consultancy within the last five years for:
- Great St Mary's, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire (PCC and Antony Redman CBS, The Whitworth Co-Partnership LLP 2010)
- All Saints' Church, Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire (PCC and Bruce Deacon Architect Limited 2010)
- St Mary the Virgin, Deane, Lancashire (PCC and Brian Foxley RIBA 2008)
- St Andrew, Kildwick, West Yorkshire (PCC and Nicholas Rank, Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams, Architects 2005)
- All Saints' Church, Mattishall, Norfolk (PCC 2005)
- St Mary the Virgin, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire (PCC 2003)