BCD SPECIAL REPORT ON HISTORIC CHURCHES 32nd ANNUAL EDITION 1 CONTENTS THE BUILDING CONSERVATION DIRECTORY SPECIAL REPORT ON HISTORIC CHURCHES 32nd annual edition ISBN 978 1 912747 25 2 PUBLISHED BY Cathedral Communications Limited High Street, Tisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6HA Tel 01747 871717 Email admin@buildingconservation.com www.buildingconservation.com EDITOR Jonathan Taylor PUBLICATIONS MANAGER Joanna Collie EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Emma Heard PUBLIC RELATIONS Elizabeth Coyle-Camp PRODUCTION & ADMINISTRATION Lynn Green Lydia Porter ADVERTISING Nicholas Rainsford Carla Winchcombe TYPESETTING xendo PRINTING Micropress Printers Ltd The many companies and specialist groups advertising in this Building Conservation Directory Special Report have been invited to participate on the basis of their established involvement in the field of building conservation and the suitability of some of their products and services for ecclesiastical buildings work. Some of the participants also supply products and services to other areas of the building market which have no application in the building conservation field. The inclusion of any company or individual in this publication should not necessarily be regarded as either a recommendation or an endorsement by the publishers. Although every effort has been made to ensure that information in this book is correct at the time of printing, responsibility for errors or omissions cannot be accepted by the publishers or any of the contributors. © Copyright 2026 Cathedral Communications Limited All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recordings, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Cathedral Communications Limited. COVER ILLUSTRATION Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, with cleaned masonry at clerestory level (Photo: Jonathan Taylor) £7.50 3 NEWS REVIEW 7 TIN TABERNACLES AND THEIR INTERIORS Michael Hill-King 13 RISING FROM THE ASHES The cleaning and restoration of Notre-Dame, Paris Jonathan Taylor and Joanna Collie 17 NORTHERN IRELAND’S TREASURED CHURCH HERITAGE Sarah Crossland 23 CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS Morwenna Slade 28 DOUGLAS STRACHAN Rona Moody 33 CLOSING THE SKILLS GAP Amy Styles, Aaron Morrison and Gordon Muir 38 PUGIN IN COLOUR Ana Logreira 44 USEFUL CONTACTS 46 PRODUCTS & SERVICES 52 SPECIALIST SUPPLIERS INDEX
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