Othery church project wins national award
THE repairs to the tower of St Michael’s Church has won a 157-year-old award for architects Beech Tyldesley.
They won the King of Prussia Gold Medal – the gift in 1857 of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, who was impressed by British Victorian church architecture.
Work included repair and consolidation of the lias stonework of the tower, walls and buttresses, conservation work to the dressed stonework and careful restoration work to the tower statues and niches.
The project has already won the William Stansell Somerset Conservation Building Award.
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