Restoration

The Council and the Fulham Palace Trust are working together to restore Fulham Palace in two 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 designed landscape;
Restoration and productive reuse of the walled garden, vinery, bothy and bee boles in partnership with Garden Organic;
The restoration and reuse of the Gothic Lodge, Coachman’s Lodge and Stable;
The provision of more high-quality interpretation material, across the Palace in general and in the Museum in particular; and
The improvement of physical and social links to the surrounding area, London and the Thames.