Historic Churches 2018

BCD SPECIAL REPORT ON HISTORIC CHURCHES 25 TH ANNUAL EDITION 19 This convergence was akin to the melding of minds which was so integral to the original cathedral building process. This, however, raises a second problem. Heritage management in this country has yet to fully address the importance of intangible heritage and how it can be managed within the wider significance package. While intangible heritage is, in some ways, considered as part of broader concepts such as communal value (which addresses social importance), this by no means encompasses its potential and full implications. Until legislation and heritage policy consider the full implications of intangible heritage, it is going to be very difficult to manage the works yard as a heritage asset. At the moment we either have to consider it as a tangible historic site, which to some extent limits its ability to grow by failing to consider the weighted importance of physical fabric to communal, people-based value and tradition, or consider it only as a modern workplace, which risks damaging its historic importance. A more productive, and accurate, way of considering a cathedral works yard is as one which combines interrelated elements of both tangible and intangible heritage. The distinct physical elements of the site are important as symbols of both the broader historic development of the ecclesiastical landscape and its secular surroundings, and the specific growth of its craft community. However, there is also a much wider use and social value attached to the way in which the yard’s craft community has been afforded the necessary scope to develop a particular, place-specific cultural intelligence and to evolve as a centre of artistry and creative innovation. Further Information PS Barnwell et al (eds), The Vernacular Workshop: From Craft to Industry 1400- 1900 , CBA, York, 2004 RK Blundel and DJ Smith, ‘Reinventing Artisanal Knowledge and Practice: A Critical Review of Innovation in a Craft- based Industry’, Prometheus , 31:1, 2013 M Jones et al (eds), The City by the Pool: Assessing the Archaeology of the City of Lincoln , Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2003 S Jones and T Yarrow, ‘Crafting Authenticity: An Ethnography of Conservation Practice’, Journal of Material Culture , 18:1, 2013 S Jones and T Yarrow, ‘Stone is Stone: Engagement and Detachment in the Craft of Conservation Masonry’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , 20:2, 2014 A Riegl, ‘The Modern Cult of Monuments its Essence and its Development’, 1903, in NS Price et al (eds), Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage , Getty Conservation Institute, 1996 R Sennet, The Craftsman , Penguin, London, 2009 D Turnbull, Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers , Harwood Academic, Amsterdam, 2000 M Varutti, ‘Crafting Heritage: Artisans and the Making of Indigenous Heritage in Contemporary Taiwan’, International Journal of Heritage Studies , 21:10, 2015 ANTONY LOWE is a heritage and urban design consultant at Birmingham-based Node Urban Design. He has worked as a conservation officer in Warwick, Kenilworth and Leamington Spa. He studied the conservation of historic buildings at York University, where his dissertation analysed the heritage significance of Lincoln Cathedral Works Yard.