ICOMOS UK - hybrid summer event

ICOMOS UK invite you to our summer event, an opportunity to share news and expertise, meet old friends, and make new ones.

This year, we are delighted to invite members to join us at St Martin-in-the-Fields, the church designed by James Gibbs in 1726, incorporated into the remodelling of Trafalgar Square by John Nash in the 19th century, and now as much a focal point for social justice as it is for architectural history.

The evening brings together architectural heritage and the heritage of homelessness, in acknowledgement of St Martin’s continuing commitment to supporting homeless people in London. We will hear from Kathryn Harris, Architect to the Church, about her work overseeing the conservation of the building and its adaptation to meet new challenges in the 21st century.

We will also meet Matt Turtle, co-founder and co-director of the Museum of Homelessness, who has also worked with St Martin’s. The Museum is now based in North London, but it began without a home, functioning as a street museum with and for people with direct experience of homelessness.

Their work embodies so much of what ICOMOS UK seeks to do: to support the protection and conservation of outstanding architecture, and to understand and respond to the needs of communities and their own sense of identity and meaning in the world around them.