C O N T E X T 1 2 0 : J U LY 2 0 1 1 3 thousands of local stone slates. In total around !(",""" man-hours of skilled labour has been used over the last few years on repair and conservation work. The team at English Heritage claims to have made some significant discoveries. Visitors will be able to see the secret passageway, uncovered during restoration work, which links King James’s state apartment to the room that was used by his favourite courtier, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Apethorpe Hall is open for guided tours on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays until +" September. Prebooking is essential: call "$%" +++ !!$+. Tours cost £%.(" per person. Building history The University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education is launching a new part-time researchbased study course, a Master of Studies in Building History. Starting this October, the course is aimed at students from a wide variety of backgrounds who want to become architectural historians trained in both academic and practical skills of building analysis and assigning value and significance, and to professionals wanting to formalise or extend their acquaintance with historic buildings. The course will run over &! months, &"!!–!+, including a minimum of six months work placement in the second year and a dissertation. See www. ice.cam.ac.uk/mst-buildinghistory. Seminary plan seeks funds The Glasgow-based public arts charity NVA has prepared plans to revive a celebrated modernist building, St Peter’s Seminary, and the surrounding Kilmahew woodlands. The seminary was built in !#,, to a design by Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia. The plan is to consolidate and partially restore the site on the banks of the Firth of Clyde and gradually bring its internal spaces back to life, reviving the !'"-acre woodlands through an artist-led programme. £!" million of funding is being sought. Some of St Peter’s interior spaces will be structurally stabilised and brought back into mixed cultural and educational use in a natural setting. There have been a number of failed attempts to find a planned solution for the former estate, many of which have proposed commercial developments. NVA’s plan to create a creative landscape within St Peter’s and Kilmahew woodlands has attracted recognition since NVA represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale’s &"!" International Architecture Exhibition. NVA presented a series of events focusing on the status and importance of St Peter’s Seminary within the history of &"th century architecture. The seminary was occupied for just !+ years before closing in !#$". It was subsequently used for five years in the !#$"s as a drug rehabilitation unit, after which the buildings fell into disrepair. The seminary was listed in !##+. The World Monuments Fund added it to its register of mostat-risk buildings in &""%. Museum of the Home The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded a development grant of £(!$,("" to help the Geffrye Museum progress its plans for a development under its new title of Museum of the Home. A master plan by David Chipperfield Architects will make the museum a centre for learning and discovery about Cadw is asking the public to vote for Castell Coch as their favourite country house in the Countryfile Magazine Awards #&"".The gothic castle was designed byWilliam Burges as a second home for the third Marquess of Bute. St Peter’s seminary: occupied for just "' years.
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