{"id":166728,"date":"2022-11-10T03:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=166728"},"modified":"2022-11-10T03:02:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:02:57","slug":"building-celebrating-legends-of-king-arthur-could-be-lost-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/building-celebrating-legends-of-king-arthur-could-be-lost-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Building celebrating legends of King Arthur could be lost forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Building celebrating legends of King Arthur could be lost forever, experts warn<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A hall linked to King Arthur is among historic sites at risk of being lost<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Historic England added 175 places to its Heritage at Risk Register of buildings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>King Arthur&#8217;s Great Halls possesses 73 renowned stained glass windows<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A hall built to celebrate the legends of King Arthur is among 175 historic sites in danger of being lost forever. They have been added to Historic England&#8217;s Heritage at Risk Register of sites threatened with decay, development or destruction. King Arthur&#8217;s Great Halls in Tintagel, Cornwall, was designed in the 1930s as a meeting place for Arthurian devotees.<\/p>\n<p>Its 73 windows are considered fine examples of stained glass workmanship. Another threatened site is the 19th-century Birmingham and Midland Institute once run by Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n<p>Once a bustling cultural hub offering arts and science lectures, exhibitions and concerts, the building has fallen into disrepair in recent years, with a leaking roof and cracked windows.<\/p>\n<p>Historic England said that while more than 100 sites had been added to the register, 233 places have been rescued with help from volunteers, community groups, charities and councils.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation has awarded \u00a38.66 million in repair grants to 185 historic places and sites, including conservation areas, over the past year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/10\/00\/64388391-0-image-m-40_1668041158842.jpg\" height=\"591\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>King Arthur&#8217;s Great Halls (pictured) in Tintagel, Cornwall,\u00a0is among 175 historic sites in danger of being lost forever<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen sites have benefitted from \u00a33.25 million in grants from the heritage at risk strand of the Culture Recovery Fund during 2021\/22, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Among those to be saved are a pastoral landmark used by Second World War sailors, two well-known sections of the 73-mile Hadrian&#8217;s Wall and a museum housing the original manuscript of Great Expectations by Dickens.<\/p>\n<p>In Merseyside, a nine-year restoration of the Church of Saints Peter &amp; Paul and St Philomena &#8211; known as the Dome of Home that signposted the entrance to the River Mersey for the returning Royal Navy &#8211; has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>The church, which served as a sign to sailors that they had survived the perils of the Atlantic, underwent conservation work to fix its roof, poor insulation and water damage.<\/p>\n<p>Steel Rigg in Northumberland and Port Carlisle in Cumbria &#8211; two scenic viewpoints along Hadrian&#8217;s Wall &#8211; have been protected through conservation work in time for the wall&#8217;s 1,900th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n<p>Another listed building linked to Dickens is Wisbech &amp; Fenland Museum in Cambridgeshire, a popular pilgrimage site for enthusiasts due to its display of the original copy of Great Expectations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/10\/00\/64388505-0-image-m-42_1668041320565.jpg\" height=\"911\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>King Arthur&#8217;s Great Halls\u00a0was designed in the 1930s as a meeting place for Arthurian devotees (Painting of King Arthur)<\/p>\n<p>The manuscript, full of handwritten pages littered with corrections and notes, was bequeathed to the museum in 1868 and will remain there after a \u00a3667,300 grant awarded by Historic England helped with roof repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said: &#8216;Historic England&#8217;s Heritage at Risk Register plays a vital role in our ongoing mission to protect and preserve our rich heritage across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It helps to ensure that future generations can continue to benefit from everything our historic sites and buildings have to offer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is also wonderful to see so many heritage sites removed from the register thanks to the support of local communities together with Historic England.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said: &#8216;It is central to Historic England&#8217;s mission that we pass on to future generations the rich legacy of historic buildings and places that we have inherited from previous generations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Our Heritage at Risk programme is a key contributor to this ambition. With the help of local communities and partners, imaginative thinking and business planning, we can bring historic places back to life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As the threat of climate change grows, the reuse and sensitive upgrading of historic buildings and places becomes ever more important.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Finding new uses for buildings and sites rescued from the register avoids the high carbon emissions associated with demolishing structures and building new.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11410503\/Building-celebrating-legends-King-Arthur-lost-forever-experts-warn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building celebrating legends of King Arthur could<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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