Janet Gilbert reports in Highbury Community News on the launch of Highbury Heritage – ‘a delightfully eclectic but balanced view of how Highbury’s development through the ages has shaped what it is today’.
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Launch of Highbury Heritage at the spire and heritage celebration on 4 July
Simon demonstrates the Highbury Heritage audiovisual resource
The new community resource, Highbury Heritage, has some 100 items, including videos and narrated stories, illustrated with images old and new. The Visitor Centre at Christ Church is open on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings in term time, and on Sundays.
Melanie Griffiths, Cloudesley, and Peter Fisher, LMU, at the spire and heritage celebration
Melanie Griffiths, Cloudesley, and Peter Fisher, LMU, after their presentations at the celebration on 4 July 2017
At the spire and heritage celebration on 4 July, Melanie Griffiths, Director of Cloudesley, spoke about the legacy of Tudor yeoman Richard Cloudesley and the 500th anniversary of his bequest to Islington which now benefits local churches and residents facing ill health and poverty. Peter Fisher, Archive Project Manager at London Metropolitan University, spoke about the musical and theatrical entertainment that took place in the spectacular hall in the university building in Holloway Road for over a century.
Christ Church spire returns to its full glory after £300k steeple project
Nicholas Weedon, the Church architect, is interviewed by the Islington Tribune following completion of the repairs http://archive.islingtontribune.com/church-glory-steeple
The repaired spire at night
Christ Church spire at night
The repaired spire is now visible
Spire and tower repaired and cleaned
The spire with new stonework and regilded weathervane emerges from the scaffolding
Weathervane regilded
Award winning stone carver helps to restore our spire
Professional stone carver Katherine Worthington plays a leading role in the restoration of the crumbling spire and speaks of the painstaking focus needed to repair the 170-year-old building.http://www.islingtontribune.com/chip-highbury-spire
Regilded weathervane is returned to the top of the spire
Regilded weathervane returns to top of the spire
Newly carved corbel stones are delivered
Newly delivered corbels