St.John the Baptist Church in Burford undertook a bold new redevelopment project at the adjacent Grade II listed Warwick Hall to provide a modern community facility.
The brief was to adapt the listed building and extend it considerably to give an accessible and flexible facility for a wide range of end users.
The challenge was to deliver a new confident community facility within one of the most historically sensitive town and church building settings. The design ethos was to reaffirm the significance of the original range by removing later extensions and to then rebuild in a manner that respected this unique setting.
Described by the Bishop of Dorchester as this community's ‘gift’ to Burford the building is unashamedly of its time but crucially sits comfortably within what must be one of the most picturesque churchyards in the country.
