If you aware of an exemplary church conservation project you might consider entering it for The King of Prussia Gold Medal Award, which has a closing date of 1 August.
The National Churches Trust writes:
The search is on for entries for The King of Prussia Gold Medal Award for the best church conservation or repair projects. The winning church or chapel will receive a £500 prize, and the architects responsible for the winning project will receive the prestigious King of Prussia Gold Medal.
Innovative, high quality church conservation or repair work that has successfully overcome a major aesthetic or technical challenge is eligible to be entered for The King of Prussia’s Gold Medal Award. The Gold Medal was the gift of King Freidrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia in 1857, who was highly impressed with British Victorian church architecture.
Run by the National Churches Trust and the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association, entries can be nominated by architects, chartered surveyors, churches and chapels, and anyone else with a passion for great church architecture.
We are delighted that the judges for The King of Prussia Gold Medal Award 2015 include HRH The Duke Gloucester KG GCVO and Prince Nicholas von Preussen.
In 2014, The King of Prussia Gold Medal Award for innovative, high quality church conservation or repair work was won by Beech Tyldesley Architects, for their repairs to the tower of St Michael’s Church in Othery, Somerset. A project to reinstate the tiled dome at the Grade II* Listed church of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs and St Ignatius in Chideock, Dorset, by architects Andrew Stone, was Highly Commended by the judges.
How to enter:
Projects must be entered for The King of Prussia Gold Medal Award by 1st August 2015. From the entries, a shortlist will be announced in early September and more details about the shortlisted projects will then need to be provided to the judges of the Award. The winner will be announced at a special awards ceremony to be held at Westminster Cathedral Hall on 5th November 2015.
The architects responsible for the winning project will receive the prestigious King of Prussia Gold Medal. This was designed by Christophe Karl Pfeuffer, a medallist and coin engraver who in 1840 received an appointment at the Berlin Mint. In 1845 he was promoted to the rank of first medallist to the Mint and was described as a person who was well endowed by nature, who modelled quickly and carefully, and took good likenesses, but was perhaps too hasty and prolific. His medal of the Third Century of the Reformation at Berlin in 1839 is considered one of his most successful productions. The winning church or chapel will also receive a £500 prize.
Entry rules are simple
- The conservation or repair project must have been carried out for a church or chapel belonging to a Christian denomination in the UK, in use for regular worship, and over one hundred years old.
- The project must have been completed within the last three years.
Full details of 2014’s winning entries
You can find out more about the history of the award and previous winners on the EASA website
