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1. 

   Beaumont House Chapel

   Beaumont House was once the home of the Roman Catholic St. Stanislaus College. The 1906 marouflage decorative scheme, attributed to Romaine-Walker and Besant was covered over in the 1970’s. Crick Smith undertook the conservation and replication of these decorative painted surfaces and the gilded and painted reredos.

2. 

   National Liberal Club Smoking Room

   This 1887 Waterhouse building has many interiors clad with ceramics manufactured by Burmantofts. Entire rooms are decorated with original glazed, often deeply moulded ceramics prized for their historic and aesthetic significance. Crick Smith are currently involved in a programme to ensure their prolonged survival.

3. 

   St Pancras Chambers

   In 2002 Crick Smith started an ongoing programme of work at St. Pancras Chambers in London with an initial survey of all levels to provide an insight into the hierarchy of the building. This initial research defined seven significant areas, providing a representation of the principle historic interiors.

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   The Sheldonian Theatre

   Designed by Wren in 1668, the details of the original historic decoration of this significant Grade I listed building was not understood. Combining historical evidence with paint research and analysis the interiors were researched and recorded, enabling the client to decide on redecoration. Ongoing works will reveal areas of the original finish and undertake paint trials.

5. 

   The Gaskells’ House, 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester

   The Manchester home of the novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). Author of Cranford and biographer of Charlotte Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell lived here with her family from 1850 until her death in 1865. The family continued to occupy the house until 1913.

6. 

   Gunsgreen, Eyemouth

   Designed by John Adam, the leading Scottish architect of the period, Gunsgreen House was built in 1752 for John Nisbet , an Eyemouth merchant. Together with his brother David, John Nesbit led a double life as a smuggler, and the interior of the house still shows bears evidence of this secret trade..

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   The Pensioners’ Club, Royal Hospital Chelsea

   The Royal Hospital Chelsea was founded in 1682 by King Charles II with the intention of providing 'succour and relief of veterans broken by age and war'. Built by Sir Christopher Wren between 1682 and 1692, The Pensioners' Club is a Grade I listed building.

8. 

   Statue of St. Dunstan: The Company of Goldsmiths

   Representing the Patron Saint of the Company of Goldsmiths, this rare gilt-wood 18th century statue of St Dunstan once decorated the Company’s ceremonial barge.

9. 

   The Cast Courts: Victoria and Albert Museum

   The Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum opened in 1873 to house i's impressive collection of architectural and sculptural plaster casts, many of which were originally created for the Great Exhibition of 1851.

10. 

    Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth

    '......I am at home - and it feels like paradise' (Charlotte Bronte, July 1841). The Parsonage at Haworth was the home of the Bronte family from 1820 when the Revd. Patrick Bronte took up the curacy, until his death in 1861..

11. 

    Florence Institute, Liverpool

    Situated in the Dingle area of Liverpool, this Grade II listed building was financed by Sir Bernard Hill, a West Indies Merchant and former Mayor of Liverpool as 'an acceptable place of recreation and instruction for the poor and working boys of this district of the City'.

12. 

    Covent Garden Market

    Built by the 6th Duke of Bedford as a fruit and vegetable market in 1828, Covent Garden Market is one of London’s most iconic landmarks. It is the best-preserved late Georgian market house in England and retains late Victorian cast iron sheds and has been the home of a major London market for 350 years

13. 

    The Rt. Hon. A. J. Mundella MP:              Marble Bust

    Anthony John Mundella (1825-1897) was the Sheriff of Nottingham in 1853, and was returned to Parliament as the Liberal MP for Sheffield Brightside. He advocated workplace health and safety, compulsory education for all, and The 1880 Education Act (The Mundella Act) was named after him.

14. 

    Great Yarmouth Town Hall

    This impressive Victorian building, designed by the architect J.B. Pearce, was opened by The Prince of Wales on 31st May 1882. The exterior has undergone major restoration in recent years, funded by English Heritage.

15. 

    Etwall Almshouses: Memorial Arch

    Etwall Almshouses were founded by Sir John Port, who left land and money in his Will dated 1556 for the foundation of a 'hospital' and 'school for the poor'. The almshouses were originally built for six residents, but this was increased to twelve in 1622. The school became the famous Repton School.

16. 

    Church of St. James the Less, New Mills

    The Church of St. James the Less and the adjacent almshouses were built in the Victorian Gothick revival style in the 1870s. The interior of the church was decorated by the Powell brothers of Leeds, and this decorative scheme included a series of frescoes and stencilled designs, with the ceiling painted red and gold.

17. 

    Baylies Hall, Dudley: Charity Children

    Baylies Charity School was established in Dudley, West Midlands in 1732 by the Baylies family for the purpose of "teaching, instructing, and clothing 50 boys, to be elected and chosen out of the parishes of town and foreign of Dudley from such whose parents would not be able to give them learning".