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TRUSTEES OF OUR LADY'S HIGH SCHOOL
MEMORIAL CHAPEL
Charity Number
Applicant
Mr Ronnie Mathieson, Trustee
No. of Employees
Previous Appeals
0
N/A
Present Appeal
War Memorial Chapel Restoration: repair and conservation
of bronze sculpture and other existing artworks plus
enhancements for future use.
Amount Requested
£5,000
Total Project Cost
Other Funding
Secured
£5,766 (inc VAT) for conservation of sculpture
£2,000 from donations
Applications are also being made to the War Memorials
Trust and Awards for All
Miss Georgina Nayler
Project Officer
Financial Information
Organisation
Year End
Restricted
01/11/13
Income
0
Expenditure
0
Total Net
Assets
Tangible Fixed
Assets
Investments
(inc cash)
Unrestricted
Total
0
0
254
417
£4,474
£0
£4,474
Organisation Overview
The Trustees of the Our Lady's High School War Memorial Chapel, Motherwell, are
constituted as a Trust, but without being a legal organisation.
Our Lady's High School is one of the oldest Roman Catholic secondary schools in
Scotland, with its origins dating back to 1895. It was originally an all-boys' school
and the first class of girls was not enrolled until 1945. In the same year, the school's
famous War Memorial Chapel, built with funds raised by the school community, was
opened. In 1974, a new school building was completed on the present site at Dalzell
Drive.
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The School contains a War Memorial Chapel, built to commemorate former staff and
pupils of Our Lady's and St Joseph's High Schools who lost their lives during the
Second World War. Funds to build the original Chapel were raised by parents, staff,
and pupils of the school and by the local community. The dedication of The War
Memorial Chapel, on its original site in the former Our Lady's High School buildings
in Airbles Street, took place on the 14th June 1949.
A group of trustees for the War Memorial Chapel was formed over 30 years ago
when the chapel was being moved from its original location within the former school,
now demolished, to a purpose built chapel within the new school grounds. The
trustees promoted and negotiated the building of a replacement chapel and transfer of
contents. They organised fund raising events towards the cost of the building and
raised awareness through publicity within the school, among former pupils, the local
community and further afield.
Each November, Right Rev. Joseph Devine, Bishop of Motherwell, celebrates a
Memorial Mass in the Chapel, attended by relatives of those who are commemorated
there.
The interior design of the Chapel owes much to the work of Sadie McLellan and
Walter Pritchard. The Chapel's features include:
• a statue of the Virgin and Child in copper and brass
• a stained glass window behind the statue
• religious murals
• Memorial Plaque and Book of Remembrance
• military insignia, flags and regimental badges
Recent additions to the Chapel include:
• a millennium tapestry containing the signatures of the school's staff and pupils in the
year 2000
• a millennium time capsule
• direct access to the school's sensory garden which is being developed with a dual
role as a garden of remembrance
The Chapel continues to play an important role in the daily religious and spiritual life
of Our Lady's High School.
Project Overview
To conserve the statue of the Madonna and Child, within the War Memorial Chapel
.
The Reredos features a unique, large Madonna and Child sculpture in copper and
brass with a stained glass window above. The sandstone altar exhibits bas-relief
sculpture. Life-size murals of Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection adorn side walls.
There are large regimental insignia in gold/silver leaf. The Trustees aim to repair and
conserve these original artefacts - particularly the Madonna by Pritchard (1905-1977,
whose most well known sculpture decorates the front of an extension to Glasgow
University, built in the late 1950s) which has suffered some scratching and
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atmospheric corrosion, probably partly due to previous well intentioned but
inappropriate cleaning, besides some slight metal damage. The Trustees would also
repair slight water damage to one mural and minor chipping on the sandstone. Less
urgent restoration would include cleaning the military insignia, replacing a plaque
naming the war-dead and upgrading other church artefacts. The Pilgrim Trust is
asked to assist with the conservation of the Madonna and Child. A report was
commissioned from Glasgow Museums and a specification and quote has been
received on the sculpture from Graciela Ainsworth, accredited conservators.
Notes from Georgina
This application is not entirely straightforward. Although there is a constitution for
the Our Lady’s High School War Memorial Trust, it is not actually a registered
charity or, apparently, a legal entity. It does however take responsibility for all the
artefacts within the chapel and assumes that, regarding ownership of the Chapel
contents, the artworks are owned by the school itself. The Trustees consider that the
school (current and former parents, pupils, staff), but not the Local Authority, has
ownership. The Trustees are responsible for the care of the contents on behalf of the
school and act as the school's representatives in this regard.
North Lanarkshire, and the previous Strathclyde Region, maintains and repairs the
building itself and also ensures the provision and safe maintenance of the electricity
supply and heating.
Farrer’s was consulted about the legality of the Pilgrim Trust assisting with this work
(and with funding other types of organisations, for example, community interest
companies) The Trustees of the Chapel have been pressed to establish legal
ownership, but this does not seem to be possible. The advice from Farrer’s concluded
that if it is not possible to establish the position in relation to ownership, the Pilgrim
trustees can of course carry out a practical assessment as to the level of risk involved
– if, as indicated, the grant is small and for specific (charitable) purposes which the
Trustees are confident will be carried out effectively, and that the benefit of that
expenditure will then flow to the public for a reasonable period, the trustees may
conclude that the risk of misapplication is in fact relatively low. If appropriate, the
trustees may decide to make any grant subject to particular conditions as to its
application, and might also take comfort from the fact that the Chapel trustees appear
to be fairly embedded in the school community, and are likely to act in the best
interests of the trusts they consider themselves (rightly or wrongly) to be performing.
Staff Recommendation
Although this project has some issues in terms of ownership, any grant would be
conditional on it being used in its entirety for the conservation of the statue. Other
fund raising is ongoing and a grant of £2,000 was awarded.
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THE TYNE AND WEAR BUILDING PRESERVATION
TRUST LTD
Charity Number
509133
Applicant
Mr Martin Hulse, Trust Manager/Company Secretary
No. of Employees
Previous Appeals
2
N/A
Present Appeal
Blackfell Hauler House - To restore the building and adapt
the structure so that it can be given a new use.
Amount Requested
£5,000
Total Project Cost
£350,000
Other Funding
Secured
£190,000 from the Challenge Fund administered through the
Architectural Heritage Fund
£14,500 English Heritage Project Development
TWBPT (Staff) £16,400
Cold Spots Initiative administered by the Architectural
Heritage Fund and funded by the Pilgrim Trust and the J
Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust £5,000
Other funding is sought from:
Sita Landfill Tax 19,000
English Heritage 50,000
Private Trusts 30,000
Project Officer
Georgina Nayler
Financial Information
Organisation
Year End
Restricted
31/03/13
Income
232,211
Expenditure
57,713
Total Net
Assets
Tangible Fixed
Assets
Investments
(inc cash)
Unrestricted
Total
249,798
185,470
482,009
243,183
£1,692,565
£1,560,339
£342,869
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Organisation Overview
The Tyne & Wear Building Preservation Trust (TWBPT) was established in 1979 to
preserve the architectural heritage of Tyne and Wear through the repair,
conservation and regeneration of our historic buildings.
The Trust acquires and preserves, for the public benefit, threatened buildings of
architectural and historic importance.· It works with local communities to understand
the residents’ concerns and solve local issues and through the re-use of neglected
buildings improves the quality of local life.· It seeks to lead by example to encourage
others to take on more problem buildings in an area of regeneration and to ensure that
buildings are repaired to the highest standard.
Project Overview
The project will restore a Hauler House that forms an integral part of the Bowes
Railway, a rope hauled railway system.
There are two remaining Hauler Houses both built in 1913 that housed large engines.
The second Hauler House still has an engine, but Blackfell's has been destroyed and
therefore, due to its isolated location and condition, it has been concluded that the
best method to conserve the building is to find a new use, with the most suitable
being a live/work unit. English Heritage has continually stated the importance of the
structure and wants to preserve its shape and form. The main elements of the project
are to restore the roof; consolidate brickwork; install new windows and doors;
provide renewable power and composting lavatories and. repair external machinery
associated with rope movement.
The Bowes Railway, built by George Stephenson in 1826, is the world's only
operational preserved standard gauge cable railway system. It was built to transport
coal from pits in Durham to boats on the River Tyne. Only part of the system remains
and this is a single Scheduled Monument. The Hauler House has been vacant since
the railway closed in 1976. This has attracted high levels of vandalism that is what
destroyed the machinery within the building. The building is featured on the Heritage
at Risk register, though because it crosses two local authorities it has two entries. It is
one of the top 10 targets of English Heritage in the region.
Issues for Consideration
The building is very small, isolated and surrounded by relics of the industrial past. It
does not appear to be instantly appealing as a home. However, Ian Lush of the
Architectural Heritage Fund has been consulted about this application and he says the
Trust is experienced, with a good reputation and the building is important and at risk.
He is enthusiastically in favour.
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The Building is on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk register and at a total project
cost of £350,000 with only £5,000 requested from the Pilgrim Trust represents good
leverage.
Staff Recommendation
A grant of £5,000 was awarded.
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HOPE CHURCH PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL
Charity Number
Applicant
DR ALLAN POYNTON, FUNDING MANAGER
No. of Employees
Previous Appeals
1
Towards a conservation report by an
accredited conservator, 2013, £300.
Present Appeal
Restoration of two Jacobean funerary monuments, of Sir
John Trevor & Lady Margaret, in Grade I listed building.
Amount Requested
£4,200
Total Project Cost
Other Funding
Secured
Project Officer
£5,134
Balance to be met by the Friends of Hope Church
Georgina Nayler
Financial Information
Organisation
Year End
Restricted
31/12/13
Income
1,020
Expenditure
1,020
Total Net
Assets
Tangible Fixed
Assets
Investments
(inc cash)
Unrestricted
Total
85,383
82,767
86,403
83,787
£59,984
£0
£59,984
Organisation Overview
Hope Church (St Cyngar & St Cynfarch) is a medieval parish church, mentioned in
1254, and has Grade 1 listing. The PCC is the governing body with a range of
defined responsibilities, including Church Fabric Responsibilities.
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The Church was built in the last quarter of the C12th. The church was extended
eastwards in the C13th and to the west in the late C14th. There is evidence of a south
pointed doorway under the plaster in the Children’s Corner found during the 1953
restoration (where the organ is now situated). 1490 to 1500 saw an extension to the
north side. The south wall contains two 4`6``diameter mill-stones of the C13th, taken
out of the church.
The south aisle became the Trevor Chapel in the early C17th with the effigies of Sir
John Trevor in ermine and period dress; the surrounding 23 coloured badges depict
the lineage of the Trevors with the Royal and Noble Tribes of Wales. Sir John was
secretary to the Earl of Nottingham who served the Navy in reigns of Elizabeth I and
James II and was builder of Plas Teg Hall, Pontblyddyn in 1610. He died aged 67 in
1629.
Project Overview
The Pilgrim Trust is asked to fund the conservation of two Jacobean funerary
monuments, of Sir John & Lady Margaret Trevor.
The Pilgrim Trust was first approached about this project last April for a grant
towards the restoration of two Jacobean funerary monuments, of Sir John Trevor &
Lady Margaret in the Grade 1 listed church building. As part of the Church in Wales,
the parish is not eligible for support from the Church Buildings Council. The parish
was proposing to use a conservator called Jennifer Watson and Sarah Staniforth was
very unhappy at what she suggested as it was, apparently, conservation practice
dating from the 70s. The Pilgrim Trust therefore invited the Parish to apply for a
small grant to obtain a proper report from an accredited conservator and gave a grant
of £300 towards these costs. Ryder Conservation produced a report and estimate and
the parish is now asking for £4,200 towards the work.
Notes from Director
Pedro Gaspar of the Church Buildings Council has commented that the proposals are
sensible (focusing on cleaning and consolidation) and he has no concerns.
Issues for Consideration
This is a straight forward conservation project of an important monument (Sir John
was the builder of Plas Teg, the first Renaissance house in Wales and a nationally
significant house) in a Grade 1 listed church, where the Parish has recently
undertaken major repairs to the fabric.
Staff Recommendation
A grant of £4,000 was awarded.