{"id":20180,"date":"2018-09-18T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20180"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T15:39:21","slug":"nts-aacb-feature-on-biddulph-grange-geological-garden-the-restoration-of-a-known-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20180","title":{"rendered":"NT\u2019s \u2018AACB\u2019 feature on Biddulph Grange Geological Garden: The restoration of a \u2018known unknown\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NT_website180918.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20181\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NT_website180918.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a>The latest issue of the National Trust (NT) Arts and Buildings Collection Bulletin (AACB) profiles the restoration of a unique geological garden, an interesting case of the application of conservation philosophy.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The National Trust writes:<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of the Gallery had left the National Trust with a unique yet neglected building and limited knowledge or understanding of its original purpose. Only one of the fossils remained; the rest were either missing or in private collections. Less than one-third of the rock strata survived in situ and only two of the seven hand-painted geological cross sections in their imposing oak frames remained in the collection, alongside the Roman marbles from the gallery vestibule.<\/p>\n<p>View more information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/biddulph-grange-garden\/features\/geological-gallery-at-biddulph-grange-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gallery <\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Trust <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/features\/art-and-collection-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts and Collection resources<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of the National Trust (NT) Arts and Buildings Collection Bulletin (AACB) profiles the restoration of a unique geological garden, an interesting case of the application of conservation philosophy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20180","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=20180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20182,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20180\/revisions\/20182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}