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Victoria Hall, Sheffield

The masterplan has been completed, including proposals for equal access to the front of the building, refurbished foyers and the main Hall, a proposal for a series of hydraulic stages within the main Hall, including one descending down to the lower ground floor, new passenger...

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Restored Lych Gate

The 1920’s lych gate at St John’s, Enfield, was sinking and had become unstable. The whole structure was surveyed, numbered and dismantled before being re-erected on a new piled foundation. New sections of timber were carefully spliced in where necessary and the whole...

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Victoria Hall

We are delighted to be appointed to another important listed building and a sizeable Methodist Central Hall - the early twentieth century Hall in the centre of Sheffield. The Hall, part of the Forward Movement, was originally designed by Waddington Son & Dunkerley but re-worked...

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Lych gate saved

The small Victorian church at Clay Hill, Enfield, built a lych gate as a memorial to the fallen of the Great War using surplus funds from a bell appeal. After 100 years of service this simple oak framed structure was leaning dangerously, from subsidence and...

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