Hugh Harrison FSA is the longest-established independent timber conservation contractor in the UK and leads a specialist company of consultants, designers and contractors in the conservation and surveying of historic structural and decorative woodwork and the design and manufacture of new bespoke work in conservation settings.
Working closely with heritage organisations, architects, paint conservators, diocesan advisory committees and other technical specialists, we offer a complete service from inception to completion, both for new work and conservation repair with a particular speciality in fire-damaged woodwork.
Hugh's technical team comprises an internationally known accredited expert on historic and polychromed woodwork, a chartered architect with a lifetime's interest in historic buildings and highly skilled joiners and carvers trained in top ecclesiastical joinery and design workshops.
Working closely with heritage organisations, architects, paint conservators, diocesan advisory committees and other technical specialists, we offer a complete service from inception to completion, both for new work and conservation repair with a particular speciality in fire-damaged woodwork.
Hugh's technical team comprises an internationally known accredited expert on historic and polychromed woodwork, a chartered architect with a lifetime's interest in historic buildings and highly skilled joiners and carvers trained in top ecclesiastical joinery and design workshops.
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Understanding the significance of an object is vital. Our unique combination of knowledge, experience and craftsmanship is of great help in guiding the enabling grant bodies when awarding financial assistance to a project. For almost 40 years Hugh Harrison FSA (pictured here whilst working in Russia), as an Accredited Conservator, has been a regular contributor of papers and articles to academic and technical books and publications.
Figurehead from Royal Navy Ship HMS Windsor Castle launched in 1858 We are currently working on a new project. In pre-11th Century English churches, it was forbidden to sit down: there were no seats in the part of. Timber effigy of a knight thought to be Sir William Combmartin at Alderton church in Northants, circa 1320.
Hugh Harrison is inheritor of 100 years of the Herbert Read family business of St Sidwell's Artworks of Exeter and as such it comes as no surprise that design of new furnishings in churches and houses has always been part of his core business. Recent design projects range from reordering the Lady Chapel and the west nave seating at Blundell's School, Devon, to a pair of handsome carvers for a medieval house for a private client.
Apprenticed to the famous joiners and carvers at Herbert Read Ltd of Exeter, our craftsmen have all worked with us for many years and are thus able to produce complex work of exceptional craftsmanship while sourcing materials of the very best quality. All new work is manufactured and fitted by our professional teams working under the direct supervision of Hugh Harrison.
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