Cupola House - Bury St. Edmunds

[tobydog]

Can you believe it was nearly three years ago?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-32784932

 

[Penners]

Nice to see that lovely building being restored. I just wish that it could be put to a more elevated use, rather than housing yet another chain restaurant.

 

[Flyfisher]

Update: http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/local/latest-news/cupola-house-rises-again-from-its-ashes-1-7455953

 

[jocelyn plummer]

The update is most interesting, highlighting some of the extremely difficult decisions that had to be made. So true that the building has 'risen from the ashes,' 'but will never be the same'. Thank goodness various people had the foresight, 20 years or so ago, to photograph much of the building's interior decoration, so giving an opportunity for some skilled crafts to be part of recreating the staircase and other carvings. Sad though that it takes a serious fire to drag the building onto the 21st c---wish that it had never happened and the building remained with all its history hidden away.

 

[Penners]

Many thanks for the update, FF. To those of us who value original fabric, of course the building will never be the same. But it's rewarding to see that its intrinsic beauty has been recreated. In the final analysis, what we see is only is only the top surface of the structure, so the fact that the substrate is no longer original cannot change that.

The keyhole fireplace is being shown to us by Dave Clarke ("structual" engineer :evil: ). I bet he was in pieces when the building was destroyed.

 

[Flyfisher]

He certainly wouldn't have been glad all over.

 

[Penners]

Deuce...

 

[Flyfisher]

:lol: