WHAT PEOPLE SAY
“I didn’t know it was important until I saw it being restored!”
— Margaret E, East London
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
“I didn’t know it was important until I saw it being restored!”
— Margaret E, East London
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ABOUT
We are London’s independent heritage charity, set up in 1980 by the Greater London Council to rescue historic buildings and monuments. We work in every London borough, supporting local communities who most need our help.
We identify projects, commission condition surveys, give grants and guide the restoration of each site from beginning to end. We focus on heritage at risk. We encourage local authorities to get behind us and work with specialist conservators to bring every building back to life. All our projects involve young people through our Proud Places programme.
London’s lost histories inspire and delight. We research the amazing stories behind every project and use them to brighten our surroundings and our lives.
As a charity we are 100% independently funded
– if you can help support us, please do!
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SOME OF OUR PROJECTS
Gatehouse of St Bartholomew
City of London
Having survived the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, this is the oldest church in the City of London with an astonishing Tudor gatehouse.
Sarah Siddons statue
Paddington
Sarah Siddons was the most famous tragedienne of the 18th century, playing Hamlet as well as Lady Macbeth and breaking new ground for women on stage.
Cranford lock-up
Hounslow
Before police stations, lock ups were used for temporary detention of thieves and drunks. This is the last of its kind to survive in London.
LATEST PROJECTS
Wanstead Grotto
Redbridge
Wanstead Grotto is an 18th century survival from the estate that was once part of Wanstead House. Comprised of limestone, shells, fossils, mica chips and crystalline minerals to sparkle by candlelight, it originally featured a boat channel and dock for gondolas.
Mount Clare Temple
Roehampton
This exquisite Temple was built in the 1760s as part of a grand estate in Roehampton. It includes a 1760s painted ceiling with a winged female figures and plaster details, all of which have been severely vandalised over the last decades.
Caledonian park animal heads & gates
Islington
This handsome iron gateway was built in 1854 as the entrance to London’s newest Metropolitan Cattle Market, where livestock from all over the country were traded. Each pier had cast iron animal heads around its top, with gas lanterns on every third pier.
GALLERY
 Southwark Cathedral Bells |  Aldgate Pump in the City of London |  Garden Museum Lanterns |
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 St Mary & Holy Trinity Bow, Tower Hamlets |  The Gillick Pageant in Kensington & Chelsea |  St John the Baptist church windows |
 St James the Less in Westminster |  Rio Cinema in Hackney |  Physic Well in Barnet |
 Apothecaries Hall, City of London |  Pimp Hall Dovecote, Waltham Forest |  Altazimuth Pavillion in Greenwich |
 Gunnersbury Park Arch, Hounslow |  Union Chapel Clock, Islington |  Wood Green Fountain, Haringey |
 Turnham Green Drinking Fountain Hounslow |  Richmond Green Drinking Fountain |  National Film Theatre Sign, Lambeth |
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