Kresen Kernow in Cornwall
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Kresen Kernow in Cornwall
Visitors and Exhibition Centre in Southern England – design by Purcell
17 Sep 2019
Kresen Kernow
Architects: Purcell
Location: Cornwall, England
Cornwall?s new archive centre, Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Centre), opened for research visits earlier this month. Designed and delivered by Purcell, the UK?s leading heritage and conservation architects, the scheme safeguards the historic Redruth Brewery building at the heart of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, revitalising the complex which is home to 1.5 million manuscripts, books and documents spanning 850 years of Cornwall?s history.
Kresen Kernow brings together the world?s largest source of information and artefacts recording the people, places, history and culture of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Purcell has renovated the site of the former Rudruth Brewery ? a collection of industrial buildings which had been developed at various times during a period of over 200 years but which had laid derelict since the brewery closed in 2004.
Successive arson attacks in 2011 and 2013 had devastated the buildings? interiors, reducing several of the structures to little more than debris-filled shells supported by temporary propping. Subsequently, the redevelopment of the site was enabled by funding from Cornwall Council and National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Purcell?s approach to the restoration...
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