Professor Emeritus
James Stevens Curl

Architectural Historian

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Professor James Stevens Curl PhD (Lond), DiplArch (Oxford), DipTP (Oxford), FSA, FSAScot, AABC, MRIAI, FRIAS, RIBA, MRTPI, 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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