{"id":46642,"date":"2026-05-08T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46642"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:15:20","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-cathedral-doorstep-amid-a-heritage-skills-crisis-st-pauls-wants-to-bring-its-craftspeople-into-the-light-reports-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46642","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (Cathedral) doorstep\u2019: Amid a heritage skills crisis, St Paul\u2019s wants to bring its craftspeople into the light, reports Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1.png 960w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:London_2408.JPG\">St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, London by Freepenguin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IHBC\u2019s President and the cathedral\u2019s property director \u2013 Rebecca Thompson &#8211;&nbsp; is on a mission to transform its ageing workshops into a shining new Centre of Excellence\u2026 but\u2026 \u2018where will it get the money?\u2019 Daniel Gayne reports in <em>Building.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><u>Building<\/u><\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every year, countless numbers will pause at the top of Ludgate Hill and marvel at St Paul\u2019s. \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 relatively few will, as I do, turn down a modest corridor\u2026 [to an] awkward, loud and busy space\u2026 Originally a car park under Paternoster Square\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 it\u2019s here that the grandeur of St Paul\u2019s is maintained, reproduced and sustained\u2026 the workshop where the cathedral\u2019s stonemasons, carpenters and metalworkers ply their trade in the same way so many others doing similar work across the country do &#8211; out of sight and out of the public\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/focus\/amid-a-heritage-skills-crisis-st-pauls-wants-to-bring-its-craftspeople-into-the-light\/5141915.article?\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, London by Freepenguin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons IHBC\u2019s President and the cathedral\u2019s property director \u2013 Rebecca Thompson &#8211;&nbsp; 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