Great layout of house just off the hub of Kensal Rise Chamberlayne Road in Mostyn Gardens.

The trio of lights feature large birds and are surrounded by coloured glass of an unusual type made from at least 1896 by Chance Brothers

Kensal Green is a fast-developing area in north-west London, in the London boroughs of Brent and Kensington and Chelsea. The surrounding areas are Harlesden to the west, Willesden to the north, Brondesbury and Queens Park to the east and North Kensington and White City to the south.

The area has seen significant gentrification over recent years, attracting people from surrounding areas such as Notting Hill and Queens Park. It is now characterised by numerous independent stores, restaurants, pubs and cafes and is earning a reputation as a ‘celebrity haunt-meets-Nappy Valley

The area has seen significant gentrification over recent years and is earning a reputation as a ‘celebrity haunt-meets-Nappy Valley’.In 2021, it was described as London’s version of Beverly Hills ^[2] and in 2009 Chamberlayne Road in Kensal Rise was named the hippest street in Europe by Vogue Magazine. Luxury goods maker Mulberry recently named its handbag Kensal and launched an advertising campaign with Cara Delevingne.

The area is now characterised by numerous independent stores, restaurants, pubs and cafes. Popular cafes include Bel and Nev, Cable, Sonora and Wild Card. Pubs include The Island, The Whippet, The Chamberlayne and Parlour – all of which offer outdoor dining. The area also features original sixties gentleman’s hairdresser Gee Barber, which has featured in numerous TV shows and commercials including one for Pinterest.

It is now home to a number of noteworthy residents including musicians Paloma Faith and Rita Ora, chef Thomasina Miers,^[5] film director, DJs and musicians Don Letts and Mark Rae, actress Thandie Newton, singer Lily Allen, model-turned-author Sophie Dahl, author Zadie Smith, David Cameron‘s ex-strategy guru Steve Hilton, the actor and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sienna Miller.^[6]

It has traditionally been popular with those working in the media and creative industries but those buying properties increasingly include people working in the financial district of the city and others moving from nearby Notting Hill in search of more space.

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The door light was stripped out and then the old oxidised  lead removed and replaced with new lead came then soft soldered using tallow flux just as original and then sealed and reinstalled.

Filkins Hall

The house acquired by Thomas Edwards in the early 18th century was evidently a predecessor of Filkins Hall, which was largely rebuilt after the fire of 1876. An iron fire-back with Edwards’s initials and the date 1716 was found in the Hall after the fire, and was refitted in the restored building. The main body of the house appears to have been remodelled by Edwards c. 1730–40 as a square double-pile, retaining part of the earlier building, and in 1819 the mansion, ‘although not elevated’, commanded ‘a fine prospect’.  A service wing was added around 1845, and photographs of the hall taken after the fire show the remains of a handsome if unexceptional Georgian mansion

First-floor rooms were panelled, and there was a large entrance hall with a polished mahogany staircase.  A pair of surviving gate piers on the north side of the Kencot road date from the early to mid 18th century, and are therefore roughly contemporary with the house.  Surviving outbuildings include a stone dovecot of the late 18th or early 19th century, which was originally a square two-storey building with a gable to each side and an oval gable-opening to the south; lean-to extensions have been added to left and right, together with a rear extension and alterations to windows and doors. The stone-built stable block, rebuilt for Edward Colston by Richard Pace of Lechlade, has a datestone inscribed E/C/N 1810, with a dolphin (the Colstons’ family emblem) depicted underneath. The building is symmetrical, with a slightly projecting central bay, a central arched carriage-opening, and a shaped gable and belfry. The flanking two-storey stable wings are of three bays each.

Colonel F. B. de Sales la Terrière, who began the restoration of Burford Priory, bought Filkins Hall in 1912 and rebuilt it in Jacobean style, incorporating some original walling and the mid 19th-century service wing. The builder was Mr Groves, and one of the masons George Swinford. Wrought-iron gates dating from c. 1912 were intended as the start of a driveway leading to the house and to an artificial lake, but neither lake nor drive were ever constructed. The Goodenoughs lived there from 1917, but in 1987 sold the Hall to developers. Thereafter the main part was converted into ten apartments and the stable block into three houses.

No time on this visit the fabulous Five Alls the renown local hostelry

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The schemes picked up on the flower head and the flower bud

In the process I also built a numbered top light

Some more fabulous work from Period House Joinery

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The finished article which is top right is undistinguishable from the rest of the original leaded lights:

Bury St Edmunds began as an Anglo Saxon settlement called Bedric’s worth. Worth was a Saxon word meaning an enclosure such as a farm or hamlet surrounded by a stockade. In 630 Sigebert the king of East Anglia founded a monastery there.

Bury St Edmunds is “The nicest town in the world” according to William Cobbett, Essayist and Traveller. The town is probably most famousfor the ruined Abbey that stands near to the town centre, surrounded by Abbey Gardens, and is one of the hidden gems of Suffolk.

The Abbey itself was founded in 1020 and grew in power and wealth up until its suppression in 1539 when,  as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Abbey was surrendered to Henry VIII. It was sold on by the Crown, the Abbot’s Palace survived as a house until 1720 but the Abbey precinct became a quarry for building material for the townsfolk and the shrine of St Edmund was stripped and broken.

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The brief to Purcell was to provide a warmer and more vibrant welcome and to give greater flexibility in both worship and hospitality.

The key part of the project was this trio of leaded lights:

which had looked like this prior to demolition of the Victorian extension

Holy Trinity has a vibrant congregation and schedule of regular events.

Changes were also made to allow extraction vents to be placed in the top section of leaded lights – as you see these were not treated very kindly by the HVAC workers but the cames were gently straightened and the third picture shows the finished article.

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New leaded lights as well as over 25 square metres of P1 restoration glass cut onsite and fitted

Some excellent Mark Heath Photography pictures shown here

Early work on the site was stalled while listed building issues were resolved – See here and here

The project has been very well received by the local community

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Queen’s Park is an area in West London located 3.9 miles (6.3 km) north-west of Charing Cross. The northern half lies in the London Borough of Brent while the southern half lies in the City of Westminster.

Known for family-friendly living, the area is centred around a park of 30 acres (12 ha), which opened in 1887 and was named to honour Queen Victoria. The area takes its name from the park, and in turn gives its name to Queens Park Rangers football club.

Architecturally, Queen’s Park is an important historic area, with a unified urban layout with a high level of building preservation. The park is a good example of a Victorian urban green space, and the surrounding streets largely comprise original two- and three-storey Victorian buildings.

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All the original glass was salvaged and returned to exactly the same position after a clean and a polish – new internal steels along with new lead came added for core support and externally the copper ties for the re-bars were refitted. This door should now be ready for another 100 years of service.

The door is tucked away on a lovely remote farm in Stanton near Bury St Edmunds

The Parish of Stanton straddles the A143 road roughly midway between Diss and Bury St Edmunds in West Suffolk.

A population of 2,507 (2011 census) residents is well served with village shops including:- Post Office with Newspapers, Cards and more, Bakers Shop, Chip Shop, General Food Store, Hairdressers, Pub, Garages, A Petrol Station, A large Garden Centre with shop and cafe, also the Wyken Hall Farmers Markets and Leaping Hare Restaurant and shop.

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Eltham has all the right numbers with new stained glass – built to match the exisiting leaded lights in the door and use the same English muffle glass sourced from the team at Kansa Craft

The build process is here from central panel

and then the outer areas of the half moon:

The existing door is in the same style:

Just around the corner is Eltham Palace  and Gardens and is a unique marriage between a medieval and Tudor palace and a 1930s millionaire’s mansion. From the 14th to the 16th century it was an important royal palace, where monarchs often stayed and hunted in the surrounding parks. After centuries of neglect, Eltham was leased to Stephen and Virginia Courtauld in 1933, who built an up-to-the-minute house here that incorporated the great hall. The result was a masterpiece of 20th-century design.

The house was ideally suited to display the Courtaulds’ extensive collection of works of art, which included contemporary pieces as well as Old Masters. It also provided ample space for entertaining their broad social circle. As well as royalty – Queen Mary visited twice – celebrity visitors included Stravinsky, Gracie Fields, Malcolm Sargent, film producers Basil Dean and Michael Balcon, band leader Lew Stone, and politicians such as Rab Butler and Leo Amery.

The Courtaulds also took full advantage of new technology. There were electric fires and in most rooms synchronous clocks which were regulated by the incoming mains supply, and a loudspeaker system that could broadcast records to rooms on the ground floor. Siemens installed a private internal telephone exchange. There was a centralised vacuum cleaner in the basement. Gas was used to power underfloor and radiant ceiling heating throughout the house. Virginia Courtald’s pet lemur even had its own heated quarters on the first floor.

Keen horticulturalists, the Courtaulds also created a variety of garden features including a rock garden, formal rose gardens and a series of garden ‘rooms’, the latter being more typical of the Edwardian period or Arts and Crafts style.

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The work focused on the Margaret Wileman Building named after (19 July 1908 – 12 August 2014) was a British academic administrator, lecturer in education, and teacher. From 1953 to 1973, she was Principal of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, and a lecturer in education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

This is the building in colder times

The leaded lights feature fluted glass in lightweight cames requiring very careful restoration

Hughes Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the oldest of the University of Cambridge’s postgraduate colleges. The college also admits undergraduates, though undergraduates admitted by the college must be aged 21 or over. There is no age requirement for postgraduate students. The majority of Hughes Hall students are postgraduate, although nearly one-fifth of the student population comprises individuals aged 21 and above who are studying undergraduate degree courses at the University.

Hughes Hall was founded in the 19th century as the Cambridge Training College for Women with the purpose of providing a college of the University dedicated to training women graduates for the teaching profession. Since then it has enlarged and expanded to support a community of students and researchers, both male and female, working in all the academic domains encompassed by the University of Cambridge.

The college is housed in a number of 19th and 20th century buildings at a main site immediately adjacent to the University of Cambridge’s Cricket ground, and between the City Centre and the railway station.

This was the first major refurbishment of the building designed by William Fawcett and inaugurated in 1895

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