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Conservation committees
Our conservation committees are made up of leading experts in heritage and church conservation, architecture, art history and archaeology.
Our committee members give us advice on conservation of church historic interiors, and help us with our conservation grants and our guidance for parishes.
We make sure that your project benefits from their expert advice.
Our committee members
Current membership of our committees is listed below:
Bells Committee
- Dr David Thackray (Chair, CBC Member)
- Rachel Arnold (Conservator)
- E John Arthur (Bells advisor for York)
- Dickon Love (Lead Dove Steward )
- Christopher Povey (Engineer CCCBR and Gloucester DAC Bells Adviser)
- Nigel Taylor (Ex Whitechapel Foundry, expert in tuning)
- Graham Pledger (Former English Heritage and Ely DAC Bell Advisor)
Clocks Committee
- Geoffrey Hunter (Chair, Head of Church Buildings and Pastoral, Diocese of Ely and CBC member)
- Keith Scobie-Youngs (Turret clock conservator)
- Tony Charlesworth (Turret clock training manager)
- Andy Burdon (Turret clock researcher)
- Rupert Griffin (Oxford DAC Clock Advisor)
- Julian Parr (Horological conservator)
Organs Committee
- Revd Canon Robert Cooper (Chair, CBC Member)
- Richard Young (Organ builder)
- Stephen Allis (Head tuner for Harrison & Harrison)
- Dr Christopher Batchelor (Organ builder & organist)
- Dominic Gwynn (Historic restoration of organs)
- Adrian Mumford (DAC organs advisor for Guildford)
- Michael Latham (Organ builder)
- Dr Lance Whitehead (Editor & Vice-Chairman, The Galpin Society, Lecturer, Edinburgh University & Napier University)
- Nigel Stark (Academic in organ historiography)
Paintings & Wall Paintings Committee
- Matthew Saunders (Chair, CBC member)
- Professor Alixe Bovey (Deputy Director, Courtauld Institute, art historian)
- Sophie Godfraind (Senior Building Conservation Advisor, Historic England)
- Lisa Shekede (Wall paintings conservator, Rickerby & Shekede)
- Sophie Stewart (Wall paintings conservator, English Heritage and Lecturer, Courtauld Institute)
- Rachel Turnbull (Senior Collections Conservator, English Heritage)
- Dr Lucy Wrapson (Senior Conservator, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum)
Sculpture and Furnishings Committee
- John Burton (Chair, CBC member & architect)
- Dr Kelcey Wilson-Lee (Monuments & monumental brasses)
- Jane Cowan (Sculpture conservator & letter carver)
- Eleanor Townsend (Medievalist and art historian)
- Clara Willett (Architectural conservator, Historic England)
- Alex Coode (National Heritage Ironwork Group Committee member)
- Dr Nicola Coldstream (Architectural historian)
- Vanessa Simeoni (Head of Conservation, Westminster Abbey)
- Katy Smith (Senior Textile Conservator, V&A South Kensington)
- Nicole Gilroy (Head of Book Conservation, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
- Heather Newton (Head of Conservation, Canterbury Cathedral)
Stained Glass Committee
- Marcus Chantry (CBC member & architect)
- Steve Clare (Stained glass conservator)
- Tobit Curteis (Independent conservator & co-author of guidelines on protective glazing)
- Jill Channer (Independent Historic Building and Architectural Glass Consultant)
- Martin Crampin (Stained glass historian specialising in 19C glass)
- Dr Alison Gilchrist (Stained Glass conservator, Barley Studios)
