About this event
Join us for this unique opportunity, as project architect, Alex Morris from Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios walks us through the multi-award winning Bath Abbey Footprint Conservation Project.
The ten-year Footprint project has protected Bath Abbey’s internationally significant historic buildings for future generations, provided important new spaces for the church, and significantly reduced its environmental impact.
Bath Abbey has been standing at the centre of Christian faith in the UNESCO City of Bath for more than 1300 years. The £19.3 million programme of restoration, building works and interpretation improves its accessibility, sustainability, hospitality, and service to the city – and visitors from around the world – as well as providing flexibility for worship now and in the future.
The visit will include a tour and discussion of the conservation and stabilisation of the failing Abbey floor, and how the architect brought geothermal heating to the church as well as a visit to the new spaces beneath the Abbey’s Grade I listed historic pavement and adjacent Grade II listed Georgian terrace, for education, administration and a bespoke practice room for the Abbey choirs.
The visit to the Abbey will finish with time to catch up with Alex, and the other attendees over some light refreshments in the learning space of the Abbey.
Spaces for this visit are limited.
About the architect and practice
Alex Morris is an architect at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, with over 20 years of experience leading design teams and delivering complex and diverse new build and retrofit projects. He was the project architect for the Bath Abbey Footprint Project and is passionate about building performance and the creative reuse of buildings.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios was founded to move architecture forward. That’s why according to them, for over 40 years, they’ve been pushing boundaries in sustainable, democratic, and socially responsible design. Architecture for a Changing World.
