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Leicester Cathedral

Leicester

Project Details

£10m to £49.99M

Alteration to existing property, Listed Building - Grade II*, Within a Conservation Area

Practice

van Heyningen and Haward Architects LLP

14 Wharf Road , LONDON , N1 7RW , United Kingdom

The Leicester Cathedral Revealed project completes the reordering masterplan that we started considering in 2008. The first phase of the internal works to the Grade II* listed cathedral was successfully completed in March 2015, and included works to the chancel and sanctuary to create a resting place for Richard III’s remains. The completion of the reordering transforms the building, enhancing the Cathedral’s mission, and allowing it to offer a warm welcome to everybody who visits. The project includes reordering of the main cathedral spaces, the complete renewal of building services, and provides the new ‘Heritage Learning Centre’ (HLC). This extension to the cathedral spreads over 4 floors – Basement -1 and -2, Ground and First – with facilities for orientation, education, and hospitality, and provides the toilets, back-of-house spaces and storage areas that the cathedral previously lacked. “At its heart, the project entailed a kind of at-first-glance-invisible, retrofit – very much the kind of work vHH excels at and Josh himself relishes.” Rory Olcayto – Architect’s Journal