Heritage Now Issue 2 2023
The summer issue of Heritage Now (02/2023) provides some well-illustrated lessons regarding sensitively improving accessibility, functionality and energy efficiency in the Grade I listed Porter’s Lodge at Exeter College, Oxford (built between 1671 and 1710). Elsewhere, Alan Calder, the biographer of Edward Guy Dawber (1861–1938), draws attention to three of his finest buildings away from the Cotswolds (with which he has generally most been associated) near Salisbury and Matlock, and in Dorset.
The issue also looks back at the 70-year publishing history of the Ancient Monuments Society Transactions (now continuing as the Journal of Historic Buildings and Places); and Paul Holden is in conversation with Frank Kelsall and Timothy Walker about their new book Nicholas Barbon: developing London, 1667-1698.
This article originally appeared in the Institute of Historic Building Conservation’s (IHBC’s) Context 177, published in September 2023.
--Institute of Historic Building Conservation
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