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Below are some story ideas for holidays in historic buildings, updates on the latest projects and news on important anniversaries.

 
For more information, ideas or images please contact Katherine Oakes or David Dawson on:
01628 825920.

 

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New Director for the Landmark Trust announced

On 16 July 2012, Dr Anna Keay will become the Director of one of the UK's largest building preservation charities, the Landmark Trust, following the departure of Peter Pearce.


Anna Keay joins the Landmark Trust after 10 years at English Heritage where she is currently Curatorial Director. Among the prominent projects she has led there are the re-presentation of the 12th-century Great Tower at Dover Castle, the re-creation of the Elizabethan garden at Kenilworth Castle and their acclaimed guidebook series. A historian by background she continues to broadcast and publish widely on aspects of British history and buildings, with her most recent book, a history of the Crown Jewels published in September 2011.

 

Neil Mendoza, Chairman of the Landmark Trust said, “I am delighted we have appointed Anna as Director of the Landmark Trust and I look forward to working with her. Anna brings a wealth of experience in the historic buildings sector and already has a strong knowledge of Landmark, having been a Trustee for the past two years. 2012 is already an exciting year for Landmark with five new buildings opening and several major fundraising projects underway. I am confident that Anna’s skills, passion and experience will complement the existing team and take Landmark forward as it approaches its sixth decade.”

 

Anna Keay said, “I am thrilled and honoured to have been offered this position. I have long admired the Landmark Trust, both for the beauty of its buildings and the bravery of its mission, and have spent many happy holidays in Landmarks over the years. I look forward immensely to joining the team and working with them to continue its important work into the future.”

 

Born in the West Highlands of Scotland, Anna was educated at Oban High School in Argyll and Bedales School in Hampshire. She read history at Magdalen College, Oxford and received a Ph.D on 17th-century British history at Queen Mary, London University. From 1996 to 2002 Anna worked as a curator for Historic Royal Palaces. Since 2002 she has worked for English Heritage, where as Curatorial Director she is responsible for curating and presenting to the public the 420 sites of the national collection of historic buildings - from Stonehenge to Kenwood, half a million historic objects and the 12 million historic photographs. She also broadcasts and writes on aspects of British history and has presented on architecture and history for the BBC and Channel 4. Her books include The Elizabethan Tower of London (2002), The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power (2008) and The Crown Jewels (2011).

Funds needed to save the former home of Mrs Coade and John Fowles in Lyme Regis

The Landmark Trust has launched a fundraising campaign to raise £2.1 million for the restoration of Belmont, a nationally important eighteenth-century house in Lyme Regis, Dorset.  Belmont was the seaside villa of Eleanor Coade, the remarkable eighteenth-century inventor of Coade stone, and later the home of renowned author John Fowles.

 

Belmont stands empty, decaying and at risk and urgently needs funds to enable its restoration.  The Grade II* house is a fine, early example of a maritime villa, a new building type that sprang up in the second half of the 18th century with the rising popularity of seaside holidays. 
 

Caroline Stanford, the Landmark Trust’s Historian said, “Mrs Coade is a fascinating, unsung figure and John Fowles a defining author of our time. Their lives have become entwined at Belmont. Please help us enable future generations to be inspired by their achievements by donating to our appeal.”

 

For further information on the campaign visit http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/belmont

 

Five new Landmarks open in 2012 

 

 

In 2012, Astley Castle in Warwickshire, pictured, two Landmarks at The Shore Cottages in Caithness, Bush Cottage in Shropshire and The Warren House in Cambridgeshire will all open for holidays following their restorations. See http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/newlandmarks

Win £5,000 of Landmark Holidays


The Landmark Trust Spring Raffle 2012 is the opportunity to win the Landmark break you have always dreamed of, while raising vital funds to save endangered historic buildings. First prize is £5,000 to spend on Landmark holidays. Tickets £1 each and closing date 11 May 2012. Play online at www.landmarktrust.org.uk.

Historic Dales farmhouse opens for holidays  


In October 2011 the first visitors unlocked the door of Cowside, a late 17th-century farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales as it began its new life as a place for holidays following a 2 year long restoration by the Landmark Trust, a buildings preservation charity.

Cowside in Langstrothdale, Upper Wharfedale (near Buckden) is a largely unaltered farmhouse surrounded by drystone walls and rolling hills. It is typical of the area in many respects but the discovery of rare wall-paintings during the restoration makes it exceptional.

Cowside had been uninhabited for decades and had fallen into dereliction. Now, following its restoration, it will be available all year round for holidays for 5 people and the income it generates will support its ongoing maintenance. Cowside is located within the Yorkshire Dales National Park adjacent to the Dales Way.

Landmark Trust Chairman

Martin Drury CBE FSA has stepped down as Chairman in November 2011 after serving on Landmark’s board of Trustees for 23 years. He has been replaced by Neil Mendoza who has a background in publishing and the arts.


The Landmark Fund

Landmark plans carefully for the future but occasionally things arise that just cannot be predicted. Some come as welcome developments, such as advances in green energy technology to offset ever-rising energy costs. Others are beyond our control, not least the results of severe weather events like our recent harsh winters and flooding. The Landmark Fund has been created to provide vital funds for some pressing projects, many of which could not have been foreseen when the buildings were originally rescued by Landmark.

Projects are diverse and range from repairing the coade stone façade of the Egyptian House in Penzance to installing an air source heat pump at Fort Clonque, a Victorian Fort on Alderney. See http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/landmarkfund


2012 Anniversaries

 

Diamond Jubilee
Landmarks with Royal connections:
Appleton Water Tower – originally built as a water tower for the Sandringham estate
Hampton Court Palace – two buildings within the royal palace that can be rented for holidays
Plus other Landmarks that past Kings and Queens have visited.

200th anniversary of birth of Augustus Pugin
The Landmark Trust has two buildings designed by Pugin, The Grange and Oxenford Gatehouse. It was while living at The Grange that Pugin designed the interiors for the House of Lords.

200th anniversary of birth of Robert Browning

The poet Robert Browning lived, with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning, at Casa Guidi for most of their marriage and wrote many of their best works from here. The sitting room at Casa Guidi is filled with many Browning books and is an evocative place in the middle of Florence.

 

For more information, ideas or images please contact Katherine Oakes or David Dawson on:

media@landmarktrust.org.uk or 01628 825 920

 

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