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’.
Category Archives: Spire and Heritage
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.
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
We will re-gild the weathervane on top of the spire
The weathervane has lost its shine