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Restoration

The Council and the Fulham Palace Trust are working together to restore Fulham Palace in three phases over the next five years. The first Phase of works was achieved with major financial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Completed in October 2006, it focussed on four key areas:

• The restoration of Bishop Sherlock’s Room within the Palace
• The refurbishment of the Bishop’s former bedrooms within the Palace’s East Quadrangle for use as offices
• The refurbishment of the East Quadrangle’s public rooms for use as a museum, café and gallery and
• The renewal of services throughout the Palace’s East Quadrangle and across the grounds      

The first phase of works won the conservation category for the RICS London Awards (commonly considered the 'Oscars of the built environment') beating major, high-profile restoration projects such as St Pancras and the Royal Festival Hall.  The project also came in overall runner-up across all categories (building conservation, community benefit, regeneration, sustainability) beating other famous schemes such as the O2 Arena and St Georges Church, Bloomsbury.  As over all runner-up it will be considered for a national RICS award in October 2008. See News

The second phase of works will be subject to the success of a future bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund and will focus on restoring, re-using and revitalising the remaining parts of the Palace as well as all its grounds and outbuildings, in particular:

• The restoration of the a small section of ancient moat beneath the Moat Bridge which is crossed by all pedestrians as they enter the Palace grounds;
• Restoration and productive reuse of the walled garden, vinery and bothy;
• The restoration and reuse of the Gothic Lodge and Coachman’s Lodge
• The restoration and reuse of the Stables as an education facility, and
• The improvement of physical and social links to the surrounding area, London and the Thames.

If successful, we expect work to start on site in November 2010.

The final phase of works is subject to a further funding application to the HLF currently scheduled for early 2010.  This will focus on:

• The restoration of the Palace's Tudor West Quadrangle
• The expansion of the existing Museum to create a local history museum
• The creation of a permanent exhibition space for the Council's Cecil French Bequest of world-renowned pre-Raphaelite paintings (for details see: http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/external/beyondburnejones/ARTISTS/edwardcoleyburnejones.htm
• The provision of more high-quality interpretation material across the Palace in general and in the Museum in particular.