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There would inevitably be 80s music blaring from his transistor radio while he worked in his shed. I’d run back inside, and we would assemble in silence at the kitchen table in the moments before noon. Bob would return from the workshop. His first stop would be to the laundry where he’d scrub the grease off his hands from the morning’s work. Silence was compulsory as the Radio New Zealand 12 o’clock news began. It was ingrained in me as the most serious news in the country from a young age. At the time, the clipped proper English would swirl around me, only sometimes the information would register. Political leaders and scandals came and went.
Feilden Fowles has refurbished the medieval dining hall at Carlisle Cathedral in north-west England and extended it with a red sandstone entrance pavilion.
Befittingly called The Fratry, the name for a priory refectory, the overhaul makes the 16th-century listed building publicly accessible for the first time.
Top image: Feilden Fowles has extended the fratry at Carlisle Cathedral. Above: it is clad in red sandstone
Feilden Fowles converted the hall and its vaulted undercroft into an event and teaching space, while the extension introduces a cafe and new entrance area.
The goal for The Fratry was to transform the building into an asset for the cathedral, open to the local community and schools.