Mill Road Cemetery Cambridge
Messenger was tasked with creating a commemoration for the chapel that once stood within the Mill Road cemetery. The former chapel was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and was sadly destroyed in a fire in 1954. Project Summary Messenger was awarded the contract to create a memorial to the Mill Road Chapel. This consisted […]
Burghley Walled Garden Stamford
Burghley Park was successfully entered into a 10-year Higher Level Stewardship scheme towards the end of 2013, with management and restoration proposals guided by a Parkland Management Plan (Cookson and Tickner, 2013). One of the main projects identified for part-funding through HLS was the restoration of the Walled Garden, located towards the south of the […]
Fiveways House Leicestershire
Fiveways House is a Grade II listed building. Originally built as a shoe factory in the early 20th century, it later became a clothing factory. Fiveways has survived two fires, the most recent being in 2008. Project Summary Messenger was awarded the contract to convert a former Edwardian shoe factory into a 250 room student […]
Holkham Hall Norfolk
Holkham Hall is an 18th century country house, constructed in the Palladian style. The property was originally built for Thomas Coke, the 1st Earl of Leicester. The now 8th Earl of Leicester, Thomas Edward Coke resides at Holkham Hall and has a continued interest in the property and all project works. Project Summary Messenger was […]
The Old House Kibworth Harcourt
The Old House is Grade I listed and is seen as historically, socially and culturally important to the area and United Kingdom. The property is remarkable for its period, as it is built in a Renaissance style but uses brick, which was very early for the district, as its general use was not recorded until […]
Crowland Abbey Peterborough
Crowland has an extensive and colourful history. The greater part of the building dates from the early 12th Century, with the remaining ruined West Front dating from 1117. The Abbey has one of the country’s finest West Fronts with 12th Century statuary carved from Barnack stone. Project Summary Messenger was awarded the contract to complete […]
Thornton College Milton Keynes
Thornton College, otherwise known as The Convent of Jesus and Mary, Buckinghamshire, incorporates sections of an important late medieval courtyard house, of which the roofs over three ranges survive. The house at Thornton College is cement rendered with a stone dressing and steeply pitched slate roofs in a Gothic style. Project Summary Thornton is a […]
The Hills Road War Memorial, Cambridge
The Hills Road War Memorial commemorates the fallen brave of both Great Wars, as the soldier glances back to the train station from where he disembarked. The memorial is titled ‘The Homecoming’ and is both a social and historic landmark. Project Summary Members of the Messenger team have had association with this important memorial over […]
Wayford Manor House Somerset
A mainly Elizabethan country house, Grade I listed Wayford Manor incorporates some medieval fragments. The house was re-built in the 16th century by Charles Daubeney and was redesigned by Harold Peto in 1902. Project Summary Following widespread problems with Collyweston roofing works previously completed to part of Wayford Manor, Messenger was contacted to provide specialist […]
Sacrewell Mill Cambridgeshire
Sacrewell Mill Cambridgeshire The rich history of Sacrewell’s Grade II* listed 18th century watermill, goes back as far as we know, to 1086 and the Domesday book, although the lie of the land suggests the Romans were using water power at Sacrewell hundreds of years earlier. Project Summary The project at Sacrewell included the construction […]
