Events tagged with "john rennie"

Historical Events tagged with "john rennie"

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Arts & Culture

Demolition of St Mary's Church Planned

January 12th, 1808 217 years ago

John Rennie's scheme to protect St Mary's Church, an important exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture founded in 669, faced abandonment in favor of demolition due to coastal erosion concerns. This decision highlighted the conflict between the preservation of historical structures and the realities of environmental change, and reflected the limits of early 19th-century engineering solutions to such problems.