Managing Historic Sites and Buildings: Reconciling Presentation and Preservation

by Baker,David; Baker,David

• ISBN13: 9780415208154
• ISBN10: 0415208157
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-10-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Preservation and presentation are central activities in the conservation of the historic environment. But are they mutually supportive or do they work against each other?Managing Historic Sites and Buildingslooks at the choices and tensions that exist in the conservation and interpretation of sites of heritage. In essays discussing a variety of locations - from a prehistoric sacred site to World War II military remains, from a medieval monastery to a 1970s housing estate - contributors look at contemporary concerns and debates about the way that the past is shaped, physically and metaphorically, by these two aspects of heritage management. Arguing that the fundamental purpose of the whole process is to communicate understanding about the human past, the collection explores the crucial relationship between preserving historic places and promoting an awareness of their significance.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	ix
List of contributors	xi
Foreword	xiii
Introduction: Contexts for Collaboration and Conflict	1	(22)
David Baker
Visiting Avebury	23	(12)
Chris Gingell
Hadrian's Wall	35	(64)
Christopher Young
Community Archaeology
David Start
Bringing it Back to Local Communities	49	(12)
Setting and Structure
Glyn Coppack
The Conservation of Wigmore Castle	61	(10)
Norton Priory
Margaret Warhurst
A Resource for the Community	71	(14)
The Tradition of Historical Consciousness
Gill Chitty
The Case of Stokesay Castle	85	(14)
Churches and Cathedrals	99	(88)
David Baker
Brodsworth Hall
Martin Allfrey
The Preservation of a Country House	115	(12)
Time to `Leap the Fence'
Krystyna Campbell
Historic Parks and Gardens	127	(14)
Preservation, Restoration and Presentation of the Industrial Heritage
Marion Blockley
A Case Study of the Ironbridge Gorge	141	(16)
Conservation of Twentieth-Century Buildings
Catherine Croft
Elain Harwood
New Rules for the Modern Movement and After?	157	(16)
Conserving Recent Military Remains
John Schofield
Choices and Challenges for the Twenty-first Century	173	(14)
Index	187