The Galleries are housed in the Abbey’s triforium, a wonderfully atmospheric space 16m above ground, with the gallery’s artefacts arrayed amongst 14th century stonework and 18th century trusses installed by Wren.
Client: Westminster Abbey
Architects: Muma
Project Value: Undisclosed
Winner: RIBA Regional Award
Our role was to devise support and restraint strategies for the priceless artefacts including a 1.5 tonne sarcophagus; the Westminster Retable, believed to be the altarpiece for Henry III’s Abbey; several funeral effigies; a collection of medieval stained glass; and the Duchess of Richmond’s parrot, the oldest stuffed parrot in the world, the support for which required detailed dynamic analysis to understand the risk of footfall induced excitation.
