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Tate secures Heritage Fund grant for St Ives site
Palais de Danse to be transformed into immersive recreation of Barbara Hepworth’s studio
A listed building in St Ives that has been closed to the public for 65 years is among seven "lesser-known heritage treasures" that have secured money from National Lottery Heritage Fund this week.
The St Ives site, the Palais de Danse, was used by sculptor Barbara Hepworth as a second studio between 1961 and 1975. It was built as cinema and dance hall in the early 1900s and sits opposite the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in the Cornish seaside town, which is run by Tate.
The project, which received £2.8m from the Heritage Fund, will create an immersive recreation of the artist’s workshop spaces alongside areas for making that inspire creative skills development. The Grade II*-listed Palais de Danse was given to Tate by members of the artist's family in 2015.
The grant announcement was made on Heritage Treasures Day (14 January), which is designed to spotlight the diverse range of heritage projects across the UK that have been saved using lottery funding over the past 30 years.
Among the seven other projects to receive funding was Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School, an architectural masterpiece on Calton Hill that was given £5m. The aim is to create a new venue for music and culture in the building, which was designed by Greek-revivalist architect Thomas Hamilton in the 1820s.
Belfast City Council has secured £768,000 to redevelop the Strand Cinema, Northern Ireland’s last remaining art deco picture house.
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In Sheffield, £4.7m will support the restoration of the Grade II*-listed Canada House in Castlegate. Originally built in 1875 as offices for the Sheffield United Gas Light Company, the building will transformed into Harmony Works, a regional hub for young musicians.
An £8m grant award will help restore and convert the Grade II* Listed Jumbo Water Tower in Colchester, making it accessible to the public for the first time as a heritage and events space.
The Grade II*-Listed Kingsley Hall in Bristol’s Old Market received £4.7m in a project for youth homelessness charity 1625 Independent People.
A £1.3m grant will help restore and convert the former Marchwell Stables of the West Sussex County Asylum, later renamed Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, which is credited as the birthplace of art therapy. The Marchwell Studios project will create affordable and accessible creative and makers spaces.