Bath Tourism Plus – Tourism Forum

Footprint

People and place fully alive

 Charles Curnock 10th March 2015

Roman temple, three churches, a monastery and a convent

Community – local, national and international

A sense of place

Footprint - what are the main needs?

• Stabilise, repair and refurbish the Abbey floor

• Use heat from the out-flow of the Roman Baths for a new heating system

• Provide flexible seating for the nave

• Reduce the impact on the fabric of large numbers of visitors and events

• Provide the necessary support spaces and ancillary services required by Bath’s most significant building and venue

• Improve the interpretation of the nationally significant heritage

…...detailed in the 50 page Statement of Need…….

BATH ABBEY                                                                              PAROCIAL CHURCH COUNCIL (PCC) 

Chair, Edward Mason PCC Members

Churchwardens Clergy Team

APPEAL BOARD Chair, Colin Skellett

Jeremy Key-Pugh Lady Evelyn Strasburger

Trevor Osborne Matthew Butler Margaret Roper

Nick Hood John Everitt Richard Hall

Robert Hamilton Valentine Morby

FOOTPRINT EXECUTIVE Edward Mason

Charles Curnock Laura Brown Sue Criddle

PROJECT ADVISORY PANEL 

Chair, Sir Peter Spencer English Heritage Commissioner Project Management Advisor

Interpretation Advisor Head of B&NES Heritage Services

Representatives of: Diocesan Advisory Committee

Churches Building Council Parochial Church Council

 

CDM Roy Short Gleeds

Interpretation Consultant 

 

to be named

Quantity Surveyor Duncan Ball Victoria Smith 

Synergy Group -  Bare Leaning and

Bare

Structural Engineer John Mann 

Spencer Fereday Mann Williams

Architects & Design Team Leader Geoff Rich 

Fergus Connolly Matt Somerville Lee Holcombe

FCB Studios

 

Retail and Catering

Consultants 

to be named

M & E Engineer Amy Wade Neil Francis Simon Wright Buro Happold

Surveyor A B Surveys 

Performance Carr & Angier 

Acoustics Fleming & Barron 

Archaeology Kim Watkins  

Historic Furniture and Architecture

Arch History Practise

Fundraising Valentine Morby

Lighting Designer Mark Sutton Vane 

Sutton Vane Associates

Design Team 

 

 

 

Other Consultants 

 

STATUTORY AUTHORITIES Diocesan Advisory Committee

Church Building Council B&NES Council

English Heritage Georgian Group & Victorian Society

Ancient Monument Society Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings

STAKEHOLDER GROUPS Friends of Bath Abbey

Abbey User Groups B&NES Council

Bath Preservation Trust Urban Regeneration Panel

Abbey Residents Association 

 

Furniture Designer

Luke Hughes

Energy Carbon Catalyst 

Group

35˚C

45˚C40˚C

A renewable heat source

Footprint – Building work to date

• Chandeliers overhaul

• Trial excavations

Skidmore designed chandeliers as installed by George Gilbert Scott in about 1870

Floor Trial

Floor Trial works

Footprint – when are things happening?

2015 Apply for Stage 2 HLF grant

2016 Detailed design

2017 – 2019 Build:

- inside Abbey – in about 12 stages

- outside Abbey – start with Kingston Buildings

We are planning far less than Gilbert Scott did.….