Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust Explained

The Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust, also known as the Spitalfields Trust, is a British architectural conservation charity. It originated in the Spitalfields area of London, although it also operates elsewhere in England and Wales.[1] The trust's founders include the architectural historians Mark Girouard and Colin Amery and the art historian and television presenter Dan Cruickshank.[2]

The Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust was founded in 1977 to rescue the remaining Georgian houses in Spitalfields, London, which were threatened with demolition by the expansion of London's financial district. The trust's work was important in the preservation of the network of early 18th-century streets in the area. The trust is largely funded by grants from English Heritage and Cadw, and by loans from the Architectural Heritage Fund.[3] [4]

The trust's work has been criticised as leading to the gentrification of Spitalfields, changing a working-class area into "a gentrified enclave for writers, historians and the like", who are "all predominantly white European".[5] [6] [7]

List of buildings restored by the trust

NameLocationImageDateNotesListed building grade
Allt-y-BelaBuilt as a hall house in the mid-15th century, originally a single-storey, cruck-frame building with wooden mullions and leaded lights. About a century later a first floor was added with dormer windows and chimneys. A three-storey Renaissance tower was added in 1599.[8]
Shurland HallA large Tudor gatehouse associated with King Henry VIII[9]
Farmhouse and worker's cottage,[10] [11]
Minor Canon RowA terrace of seven houses built between 1722 and 1735 to house the minor canons of the cathedral[12]
Varden Street and Turner StreetTwo adjoining terraces of early-nineteenth century houses[13]
Naval officers' quarters
51.4427°N 0.7537°W		Ten houses including Dockyard House, built for the Chief Superintendent of the Royal Dockyard, and five houses forming Regency Terrace. Most were designed by George Ledwell-Taylor.[14]

Other buildings with which the trust has been involved

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 273695 - Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust Limited. Charity Commission. 22 May 2014.
  2. Web site: Dan Cruikshank. Random House Speakers. 3 December 2014.
  3. Book: Jenks, Chris. Urban Culture: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. 2004. Routledge. Abingdon, UK. 0-415-30497-0. 205.
  4. Wheater. Caroline. The Spitalfields Trust: One foot in the past. Period Living. June 2011.
  5. Mead. Andrew. Fount of stories. Architects' Journal. 8 June 2000. 3 December 2014.
  6. Book: Glendinning. Miles. The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation : Antiquity to Modernity. 2013. Routledge. 9780415499996. 353.
  7. Book: Sandercock. Leonie. Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities. 1998. John Wiley & Sons. 0471971979. 170.
  8. Web site: Allt-y-bella, Llantrisant Fawr. British Listed Buildings. 29 July 2015.
  9. Web site: From Spitalfields to the Isle of Sheppy. Spitalfields Life. 22 May 2014. 7 May 2010.
  10. Web site: A massive crane will be needed to move a 400-year-old house six metres away from the edge of the Lower Rainham Road . 23 May 2015 . kentonline.co.uk. 18 June 2015 .
  11. Web site: The Black House, Gillingham . britishlistedbuildings.co.uk . 18 June 2015.
  12. Web site: Press Release Re Minor Canon Row. Rochester Cathedral. 22 May 2014.
  13. Web site: The Romance of Old Whitechapel. Spitalfields Life. 22 May 2014. 14 December 2009.
  14. Web site: Building Preservation Trust in Dramatic Rescue of Key Endangered Site. Save Britain's Heritage. 3 December 2014.

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