HIEROGLYPHICS, GRAFFITI OR INSCRIPTIONS?
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In March, the Trustees signed the contracts for the restoration works on the existing buildings and the erection of the new building with an anticipated start on site in the next few months. The first stage will include a final archaeological exploration of the site. A meeting will be held with the neighbours to meet the Trustees and the contractors before work starts. The building work is likely to take up to six months to complete, after which work will start on moving the artefacts back and putting up displays. All being well, we plan to start opening the site to the public in Spring 2012. Wellesbourne’s winning restoration project Chedham’s Yard celebrated the news that it has been awarded charitable status with a visit from MP Jeremy Wright on February 18th.
The Kenilworth and Southam MP, whose new constituency covers Wellesbourne, was shown around the yard, which won the BBC’s Restoration Village competition in 2006, and taken to see where its artefacts are being restored. |
One concern of the Trust is that when the builders do appear, they ensure the survival of the graffiti – or should I say, inscriptions. For this is no ordinary doodling. Within the grounds of Chedham’s Yard are numerous writings on the walls of the former workshops. |
“Suppose that a tool, e.g., an axe, were a natural body, then being an axe would have been its essence, and so its soul; if this disappeared from it, it would have ceased to be an axe, except in name.” (Aristotle). |
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