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Fothergill's Offices, George St.
- being renovated, re-opening soon www.fothergillproject.comThe Fothergill Project is the first formal acknowledgement of the importance of Watson Fothergill to the architectural and artistic heritage of Nottingham. This initiative to re-open Fothergill's offices as an art and lifestyle gallery promoting innovative cultural tourism, is nearing completion.... |
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This striking building, completed in 1895, was the epitome of Fothergill's florid, Gothic revival style. In a wa,y it was a kind of three-dimensional catalogue of his designs and features on offer to clients! It certainly was a striking advertisment for the man and his craft. Bands of coloured bricks and stones vie with polychormatic voussoirs; there are columns and gargoyles; dark wooden beams and gables; a tower and finials; the building is a riot of design and detail. Fothergill's architectural heros, Pugin, George Street,
George Gilbert Scott , William Burges and Shaw are honoured in stone.
Freizes depicting architecture through the ages adorn the front. |
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It is planned to open shortly as an art and lifestyle gallery. Fothergill’s Offices and studio will be refurbished as an extension of the gallery, and also as a visitors’ centre focusing on his central contribution to Nottingham’s architectural heritage, and the various ways he and his contemporaries have influenced arts and crafts up to the present. |
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Anyone interested in further information, or with any thoughts about the nature of the project, and how it might be developed, can get in touch with the project organiser, Terry Bennet at info@fothergillproject.com. |
