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Grade I Listed Spalding War Memorial Conserved

Grade I Listed Spalding War Memorial Conserved

Spalding War Memorial, Ayscoughfee Hall Gardens, Lincolnshire Skillingtons have completed the specialist conservation of a Sir Edwin Lutyens designed First World War memorial in Spalding in time for Remembrance Day. Having suffered from pooling water, damp issues and deteriorating stonework, Skillingtons were engaged to carry out a five-month programme of…
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Skillingtons Project Wins 2025 AABC Conservation Award

Skillingtons Project Wins 2025 AABC Conservation Award

Leighton Buzzard Market Cross Skillingtons recent conservation of the Leighton Buzzard market cross has won a Civic Trust Award. Project Architect, Rena Pitsilli-Graham, nominated the work. The judges said: “The project has not only preserved a significant historical landmark but also reinforced its cultural and aesthetic value to Leighton Buzzard’s…
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Londonthorpe WW2 Firing Wall (July 2024)

Londonthorpe WW2 Firing Wall (July 2024)

Emma Teale, Senior Conservator, writes: Skillingtons were first asked in 2022 by the Woodland Trust to have a look at graffiti removal and brick repair at a WW2 firing wall in Alma Park Wood, part of Londonthorpe Woods, Grantham. This is a slightly unusual and interesting job for Skillington Workshop as…
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Theodosian Palace Conservation Project: Stobi, North Macedonia

Theodosian Palace Conservation Project: Stobi, North Macedonia

Conservators from Skillingtons worked with an international team led by Graham Abrey for the Balkan Heritage Foundation with the National Institution Stobi at a site in North Macedonia. They were helping to conserve part of one of the most important buildings at Stobi; the 4th century Roman residential Theodosian Palace.…
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