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Consultancy
Professor James Stevens Curl PhD (Lond), DiplArch (Oxford), DipTP
(Oxford), FSA, FSAScot, AABC, MRIAI, FRIAS, RIBA, is an
Architect with a special interest in the conservation of historic
buildings. He is also a professional architectural historian with
an impressive list of publications to his name.
He
- advised the Scottish Committee for European Architectural
Heritage Year 1975
- was Architectural Editor of The Survey of London
responsible for Volume 37 (Northern Kensington)
- was specialist architect advising on historic buildings, conservation
areas, and design matters with Hertfordshire County Council
- and for several years ran a recognised Postgraduate Course
in Architectural Building Conservation at Leicester.
Among his works were
- the conservation of a mediaeval church in Oxfordshire
- schemes for various Oxford Colleges (including All Souls’
and St John’s)
- several Victorian buildings in Glasgow
- interventions throughout Scotland
- sensitive extensions to a number of buildings in Hertfordshire
- and many more projects involving repairs, conservation, additions,
and other design input.
He has advised on numerous sites within Conservation Areas in
Oxford, writing detailed Reports and providing Opinions for Appeals.
He has also acted for clients on Planning matters in Northern
Ireland (including several successful Appeals), has advised on
major eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings in Scotland
(including a large Classical country-house, a fine Mill with the
machinery still intact in Dumfries & Galloway, a Victorian
Villa in Renfrewshire, and the setting of a major Neo-Classical
terrace in Glasgow), and on many projects in Leicestershire, Rutland, and Northamptonshire. He has designed numerous funerary monuments,
including examples in Norfolk and Oxfordshire, and takes a considerable
interest in the design of memorials, monuments, and headstones.
He has prepared reports on many historic buildings, structures
within Conservation Areas, and historic gardens (most recently
on a major eighteenth-century garden in Germany). |
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