{"id":192,"date":"2023-04-01T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/?p=192"},"modified":"2023-04-01T11:07:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T11:07:23","slug":"conservation-students-begin-work-on-the-conservation-plan-for-st-andrews-chapel-near-boxley-abbey-in-maidstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/2023\/04\/01\/conservation-students-begin-work-on-the-conservation-plan-for-st-andrews-chapel-near-boxley-abbey-in-maidstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation students begin work on the Conservation Plan for St. Andrew&#8217;s Chapel, near Boxley Abbey in Maidstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The students of the module &#8216;Intervention at Historic Sites&#8217; (ARCH8430) visited the &#8216;Old House Project&#8217; of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Currently being refurbished by the Society, St. Andrew&#8217;s Chapel has a varied and rich history: probably built in the 15th century, the original chapel was transformed to a house after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The &#8216;Chapel&#8217; is currently a patchwork of different phases of construction, including a 1900s timber-frame extension that transformed the house to a Post Office, prior to its abandonment in the second half of the 20th century. This site provides a unique opportunity to engage with a wide range of architectural forms and methods of construction.\u00a0 Our students are currently preparing a Conservation Plan that will help to infuse new life into the building. Their work started with a guided site visit to the chapel and its vicinity, which included the medieval &#8216;Hospitium&#8217; of Boxley Abbey. Despite the cold January weather, the students were fascinated by the site&#8217;s incredible Medieval and Early Modern buildings and the opportunity to meet the expert technicians of the SPAB currently working on their preservation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" style=\"width: 4080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/files\/2023\/04\/20230123_102851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-196 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/files\/2023\/04\/20230123_102851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4080\" height=\"3060\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonnathan Garlick (SPAB), left, showing the repairs of the SPAB on the east wall of the former chapel to the students of the MSc in Architectural Conservation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The students of the module &#8216;Intervention at Historic Sites&#8217; (ARCH8430) visited the &#8216;Old House Project&#8217; of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Currently being refurbished by the Society, St. Andrew&#8217;s Chapel has a varied and rich history: probably built in the 15th century, the original chapel was transformed to a house after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}