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cultural significance

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aesthetic(s)


Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty… Oxford Dictionary Thesaurus 2001. May be both subjective and objective, see unit 2 page 8.
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adaptation


The process by which an asset might be changed to a new use to ensure its survival. Such uses should be sympathetic to original use and pose no, or only minimum, threat to longevity by intensification of use.
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anastylosis

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ancient monument


Building place or structure designated as of national importance and protected in the UK under Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. See Historic Scotland Memorandum of Guidance 1998. Currently there are some 19,500 entries in the lists covering Schedule Monuments with approximately 35,000 sites ranging from standing stones to teleph [..]
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anti-scrape movement


See also SPAB. A mid 19th century reaction/development against the excessively conjectural intervention of early Victorian restorationists such as James Wyatt and in France Eugene-Emanuel Viollet-le-Duc
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art deco


That period of art/architecture between the 1914 - 18 war and the beginning of the Second World War 1939: typified by such buildings as the Hoover factory, the Firestone factory et al. The term Art Deco takes its name from the Exposition des Arts-Decoatifs et Industriels Moderne held in Paris in 1924 “…disseminated the elements of a style derived f [..]
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art nouveau


That period in art and architecture between circa 1888 and 1914 and had its roots in organic natural forms and plant shapes. Also subsumed the Arts & Crafts style of Morris, Voysey et al, which style attempted to revert to hand crafts and skills threatened by industrialisation: very much part of the Victorian romantic movement.
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asset


Building, structure, landscape, object or artefact that helps a society to recall its history by reference as a primary source: Contributing by its presence, in authentic form through conservation and preservation and allowing society to form an opinion about that society’s historic development and influences.
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asset management


A process, by which an asset is to be looked after, maintained, changed or developed.
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