{"id":19502,"date":"2018-07-07T17:12:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T16:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=19502"},"modified":"2018-07-07T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T16:29:55","slug":"ihbc-north-west-branch-day-conference-the-work-of-faith-18th-october-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19502","title":{"rendered":"IHBC North West Branch Day Conference: \u2018The Work of Faith\u2019, 18th October, Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;19505&#8242;]The IHBC\u2019s North West Branch has launched its Day Conference for 2018, on \u2018The Work of Faith\u2019, which will include local tours of sites, and takes place on 18 October in the Liverpool Medical Institution<strong>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19503\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NW2018_website_image-207x300.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/>Lead organiser for the Branch, Katie Wray, said: \u2018We are delighted to open bookings for our 2018 conference on places of worship. This is a broad and important topic and we have therefore sought to ensure we cover less well known areas including synagogues and Quaker Meeting Houses.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The conference also looks at adaptation and reuse and we have also been lucky to secure two international speakers.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>IHBC North West Branch writes:<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s conference focusses upon the many challenges faced in the conservation of historic places of worship. These buildings are used by a wide range of denominations and faiths, including churches and chapels, meeting houses, synagogues, gurdawaras, temples, mandirs and mosques. An increasing number of secular buildings are now also being used by faith groups, such as former schools and cinemas. These buildings often have a key presence in the wider historic environment, contributing positively to the quality of the local townscape and a sense of place as well as embodying evidential, historical, aesthetic and communal values.<\/p>\n<p>Managing places of worship to ensure their long-term preservation and ongoing use whilst minimising harm to their significance can be a considerable challenge. This may require balancing evolving faith practices, congregational expectations, and accommodating a wider range of activities alongside ongoing maintenance and historic fabric repair. The conference will consider different ways in which this balance can be achieved in order to support their ongoing use as places of worship, particularly where there is a need to make physical changes to the fabric or install new facilities for community use.<\/p>\n<p>Where a religious use cannot be sustained, these buildings often present unique challenges \u2013 as well as opportunities \u2013 to accommodate alternative new uses. Examples of best practice will be highlighted to illustrate how places of worship can be adapted and converted to new uses whilst minimising harm to their significance.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will be of interest to conservation officers, planners, architects, developers, property owners, amenity societies, and all those who manage and care for historic places of worship.<\/p>\n<p>Conference fee (to include buffet lunch and all refreshments):<br \/>\n\u00a3100 Members \/ \u00a3115 Non Members \/ \u00a370 Concessions*<\/p>\n<h5><em>*Concessionary rate is for students or retired.<br \/>\nPlease note you may be asked to provide proof.<\/em><\/h5>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19512 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NW_2018_Liverpool_Medical_Institution-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"building\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/>Contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ihbcnwevents@gmail.com\">ihbcnwevents@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter for regular updates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%40Ihbcnwevents&amp;src=typd\">@Ihbcnwevents<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;q=%23ihbcworship%20&amp;src=typd\">#ihbcworship<\/a>\u00a0for the conference<\/p>\n<p>To book and for more information see <a href=\"https:\/\/worship.ihbc.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worship.ihbc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h6><em>Image: Liverpool Medical Institution &#8211; By John Bradley [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;19505&#8242;]The IHBC\u2019s North West Branch has launched its Day Conference for 2018, on \u2018The Work of Faith\u2019, which will include local tours of sites, and takes place on 18 October in the Liverpool Medical Institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19514,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502\/revisions\/19514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}