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      <image:title>Architectural Carving - Monkey, private collector</image:title>
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      <image:title>Architectural Carving - Magdalen College, Oxford</image:title>
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      <image:title>Alex Wenham - Grand palais des champs-élysées, paris</image:title>
      <image:caption>In 2007-9 I was involved in a major restoration project on the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, an ornate, Neo-Baroque exhibition hall from the Belle Epoque. The main focus for the carving repair was the replacement of a dozen Ionic capitals which had weathered beyond repair in an exposed location at the end of the building next to the Seine. The capitals were prepared as carving reservations off site, installed, and carved in situ by a team of three carvers. I was the company’s principal carver on site and carved five of the capitals. In addition, I also replaced many other stone features on the building. Several of the figures in the carved groups had missing or damaged elements. With indent repairs and mortar repairs I replaced fingers, toes, hair, knees, clothing and a breast. I also carved some large sections of an ornate frieze, several dozen modillions and rosettes underneath replaced sections of cornice, five decorated window keystones, and endless yards of egg-and-dart and other classical motifs</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Alex Wenham - Monkey pinnacle</image:title>
      <image:caption>A personal project for my own private collection – one of a series of animals interacting with architecture in a realistic (not stylised) way.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Alex Wenham - Pediment for hôtel de chavanac</image:title>
      <image:caption>At the 3D Pierre carving workshop in Paris I and two other carvers worked on this Baroque pediment for a large new-build project in Luxembourg.  Please see also the window keystones [internal link] which I carved for the same project</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Alex Wenham - St pancras station grotesques</image:title>
      <image:caption>In 2003-4 I replaced fourteen missing or broken grotesques on the octagonal turrets of the gateway tower of St Pancras Station, as part of the ongoing restoration of its Victorian Gothic façade.  Twelve of the grotesques were carved as monstrous beasts, in the style of (but not exact copies of) surviving exemplars elsewhere on the building; a further two were carved as portrait caricatures of two gentlemen who spearheaded the restoration project.  The stone is Ketton, a robust limestone from Rutland.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Alex Wenham - Venus de’ medici</image:title>
      <image:caption>A copy of the famed Hellenistic statue in the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Made for a private residence at the 3D Pierre carving workshop in Paris.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Alex Wenham</image:title>
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      <image:title>Alex Wenham - St paul's cathedral clock faces</image:title>
      <image:caption>In 2003 as part of a major restoration campaign for Stonewest Ltd on the façade of St Paul’s, I re-cut the filleted edges of the Roman numerals and other detail deeper into the existing faces of the cathedral clock, where the stone had been badly eroded and the numerals had become hard to read.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Alex Wenham - Vénus d’arles, hôtel païva, paris</image:title>
      <image:caption>This statue, a 19th-century copy of a badly-damaged classical one in the Louvre collection, stands in a niche in a courtyard of a private members’ club on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Exposed to the weather, the statue had lost a significant amount of carved detail from each hand.  A drawing from the Louvre supplied evidence for the missing parts, a ball in one hand and a mirror in the other. I pieced in the mirror as an indent repair, and the missing fingers and ball in the right hand were built up in mortar repairs on armatures.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.alexwenham.co.uk/sculpture</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Sculpture - Venus de’ medici</image:title>
      <image:caption>A copy of the famed Hellenistic statue in the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Made for a private residence at the 3D Pierre carving workshop in Paris.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sculpture - Monkey pinnacle</image:title>
      <image:caption>A personal project for my own private collection – one of a series of animals interacting with architecture in a realistic (not stylised) way</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sculpture</image:title>
      <image:caption>A pair of armadillos carved as ball finials. Portland base bed limestone</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sculpture</image:title>
      <image:caption>This pair of sculptures in plaster of Paris was installed outside the Museum of History of Science during June-July 2019 as part of the ‘Tomorrow’s Oxford Heads’ exhibition - celebrating the 350th anniversary of the creation of the original famous Sheldonian Theatre heads in Oxford. The temporary installation, intended to mirror the silhouette of the original heads, imagines what contemporary carved heads could look like in Oxford in the context of a diverse, multicultural city sadly lacking in diversity in its permanent public sculpture.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sculpture</image:title>
      <image:caption>A series of ‘standing stone’ sculptures - raw limestone blocks in their natural state, containing windows of carved detail. I am making more in this series currently - please enquire if you would like to commission one.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sculpture - Roctopus 1</image:title>
      <image:caption>Very large entangled octopus carved in Cadeby limestone, approx 1m40 long SOLD</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.alexwenham.co.uk/letter-cutting</loc>
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    <lastmod>2016-12-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Letter Cutting - Clock faces, st paul’s cathedral</image:title>
      <image:caption>In 2003 as part of a major restoration campaign for Stonewest Ltd on the façade of St Paul’s, I re-cut the filleted edges of the Roman numerals and other detail deeper into the existing faces of the cathedral clock, where the stone had been badly eroded and the numerals had become hard to read.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Letter Cutting - War memorial</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lettering taken from a poem inscribed on a war memorial for London-based sculptor Richard Aumonier.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Alphabet roundel</image:title>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Alphabet roundel</image:title>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Alphabet roundel</image:title>
      <image:caption>A circular alphabet of cursive capital letters for a private collection</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Alphabet roundel</image:title>
      <image:caption>A circular alphabet of cursive capital letters for a private collection</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Palace of Westminster</image:title>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Magdalen College, Oxford</image:title>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - War memorial</image:title>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - St Paul's clock faces - re-cut</image:title>
      <image:caption>re-cut letters for the clock faces of St Paul’s Cathedral</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Randolph Hotel, Oxford - '1865'</image:title>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Randolph Hotel, Oxford - 'RH' raised intertwined letters</image:title>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Christ Church College, Oxford</image:title>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Private memorial</image:title>
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      <image:title>Letter cutting - Exeter College, Oxford</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.alexwenham.co.uk/replacement-of-historic-carvings</loc>
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    <lastmod>2022-06-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Replacement of Historic Carvings - Harfleur church, normandy</image:title>
      <image:caption>In 2009 for Quélin S.A. we restored some carved detail on the windows of a fifteenth-century church. I carved a skinny dog label-stop grotesque (to complement an existing one on the other side of the window), many filigree crockets on canopy gables, and a pierced vine-leaf surround in the arch of one of the windows. This last was very challenging as the vine-leaf motif needed to span a hollow moulding, and a profile to follow the curve of the window arch needed to be worked behind the suspended vine leaves and grapes. On each of the stones I could pass my arm completely behind the delicately carved flora.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Replacement of Historic Carvings - Grand palais des champs-élysées, paris</image:title>
      <image:caption>In 2007-9 I was involved in a major restoration project on the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, an ornate, Neo-Baroque exhibition hall from the Belle Epoque. The main focus for the carving repair was the replacement of a dozen Ionic capitals which had weathered beyond repair in an exposed location at the end of the building next to the Seine. The capitals were prepared as carving reservations off site, installed, and carved in situ by a team of three carvers. I was the company’s principal carver on site and carved five of the capitals. In addition, I also replaced many other stone features on the building. Several of the figures in the carved groups had missing or damaged elements. With indent repairs and mortar repairs I replaced fingers, toes, hair, knees, clothing and a breast. I also carved some large sections of an ornate frieze, several dozen modillions and rosettes underneath replaced sections of cornice, five decorated window keystones, and endless yards of egg-and-dart and other classical motifs.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Replacement of Historic Carvings - St pancras station grotesques</image:title>
      <image:caption>In 2003-4 Nina Bilbey and I replaced fourteen missing or broken grotesques on the octagonal turrets of the gateway tower of St Pancras Station, as part of the ongoing restoration of its Victorian Gothic façade. Twelve of the grotesques were carved as monstrous beasts, in the style of (but not exact copies of) surviving exemplars elsewhere on the building; a further two were carved as portrait caricatures of two gentlemen who spearheaded the restoration project. The stone is Ketton, a robust limestone from Rutland.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A stone on Reading Abbey gatehouse intended for a carved head was left uncarved at the time of a Victorian restoration campaign. I was commissioned to create this carving in the existing reservation stone to celebrate a centenary (for Cliveden Conservation)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Various replacement carving work carried out on a bay in Cloister Court in the Houses of Parliament. For DBR ltd.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.alexwenham.co.uk/new-build-architectural-carving</loc>
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    <lastmod>2022-06-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>New Build Architectural Carving - Pediment for nautical villa, new york</image:title>
      <image:caption>In 2013-14 at the 3D Pierre workshop in Paris I and two other carvers provided the carved detail for a new build villa in Long Island, New York. Since the property stands on the seafront, the client chose a nautical theme for some of the detail. The centrepiece of the project was a large, classical pediment featuring two reclining ladies in drapery, with sea shells strewn about their feet. See also our other architectural carved detail for this job.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Build Architectural Carving - Hare and tortoise gargoyles</image:title>
      <image:caption>A pair of stylised Hare and Tortoise gargoyles for a private property. These are functioning gargoyles – i.e. they are working spouts for the shedding of rainwater. The tortoise’s neck was planned with a deliberate curve to allow the straight passage of a core drill to keep the full arch of the shell without cutting a furrow.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Build Architectural Carving - Pediment for hôtel de chavanac</image:title>
      <image:caption>At the 3D Pierre carving workshop in Paris I and two other carvers worked on this Baroque pediment for a large new-build project in Luxembourg.  The final pictures show two window keystones which I carved for the same project.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conservation of Historic Carvings - Vénus d’arles, hôtel païva, paris</image:title>
      <image:caption>This statue, a 19th-century copy of a badly-damaged classical one in the Louvre collection, stands in a niche in a courtyard of a private members’ club on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Exposed to the weather, the statue had lost a significant amount of carved detail from each hand. A drawing from the Louvre supplied evidence for the missing parts, a ball in one hand and a mirror in the other. I pieced in the mirror as an indent repair, and the missing fingers and ball in the right hand were built up in mortar repairs on armatures.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In 2009 I was responsible for restoring a 14th Century doorway on a small church in the Brie region of Seine-et-Marne, famous for its cheese. Because minimal intervention to the historic stonework was of utmost importance, the architect chose to restore the carved tympanum with sacrificial mortar repairs, rather than piecing-in new stonework. Here you can see how a sympathetic mortar mix has been applied to the missing areas at the bottom and allowed to cure. Once this had completely gone off, I returned to site and carved the missing detail into the mortar, which was then coloured with natural pigments in limewash to reflect the patina of the original.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conservation of Historic Carvings - Coulombs-en-valois church, seine-et-marne</image:title>
      <image:caption>The façade of this Romanesque church in Seine-et-Marne is adorned with an unusual Renaissance period façade whose soft stone had weathered extremely badly, almost beyond recognition. The budget of the small community made it impossible to replace all the damaged stonework with new, so it was decided only to replace the most badly damaged stones, and to build up the remainder with lime mortar repairs. Here you can see the façade as it was before intervention, then once the new stones have been inserted, and finally the finished result once the carvings on the new stones have been carried out, and the remaining detail elsewhere has been built up and modelled in sympathetic mortar.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In 2002 as part of a major restoration campaign for Stonewest Ltd on the façade of St Paul’s, I carried out this indent repair to a cherub’s wing, as well as many indent repairs to Corinthian capitals and other carved detail. Because of the easily viewed location of this cherub, adorning the visitor entrance to the crypt, the architect insisted that the repair should be perfectly executed and be faultlessly sympathetic to the style of the original. See also my letter cutting of the Roman numerals on the cathedral’s clock faces</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conservation of Historic Carvings - Fireplace for la légion d’honneur</image:title>
      <image:caption>In one of the formal reception rooms at the premises of la Légion d’Honneur, the French national order of merit, there was a ruined fireplace. Only a part of one jamb (leg) remained in the original red marble. For reasons of budget the client wanted to have the rest of the fireplace restored in a fine limestone, and then a marble effect given to the restored parts. I was one of a three-man team of carvers at the 3D Pierre workshop in Paris who undertook this project.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conservation of Historic Carvings - Chartres cathedral</image:title>
      <image:caption>In 2009-10 for Quélin S.A. I was involved in a major restoration programme on the façade of Chartres Cathedral. I was responsible for the restoration and conservation of the gallery of French kings on the façade. This included the structural repair of significant fractures, piecing in of indent repairs (see photos of the replacement of the hilt of Charlemagne’s sword), and cosmetic mortar repairs. In addition, I replaced many other carved elements on the façade, notably many of the flowers surrounding the circular elements of the rose window, as well as indent repairs to foliage and grotesques.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In 2017 I restored a badly damaged and important statue in Cloister Quad of Magdalen College, Oxford. This statue had been damaged previously, and the lower area comprising the plinth and most of the legs had been replaced in a soft Bath stone which had weathered very badly. One of the legs of this previous repair was missing, another was fractured, and the whole lower area was suffering from advanced symptoms of soft limestone decay. It was very dangerous and the statue was at risk of falling. Permission was obtained to redo this previous repair in a more robust material. The stone I selected was Cadeby, quarried by Blockstone. The statue was removed to my workshop, the missing areas were built-up onto the original base in plaster of Paris, and this was used as a model for reproduction in new stone. The statue was cleaned, other indents and mortar repairs were carried out, and the upper stone was given a protective wash of lime-based shelter-coat before fixing onto the new bottom stone.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In 2018 I restored a badly-damaged heraldic panel for the Norman Porch at the Houses of Parliament as a subcontractor to DBR limited. One surviving part of the original panel was saved and pieced into a new stone into which the replacement carving was cut. This carving was one of two to receive a commendation at the Stone Federation annual awards ceremony 2018. Caen limestone, approx. dimensions 450x830mm.</image:caption>
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