Documentary Commission Unit 3: Conservations.

At the cathedral there are two main conservations that happen;

Stone and Glass.

Stonemasonry.

Heather Newton is head of the stonemasonry conservation, joining the team at Canterbury Cathedral in 1998.

Heather has been in many documentaries talking about the Cathedral and is extremely passionate about what she does.

Heather gained a distinction in City and Guilds and a post-graduate qualification in the conservation of stone and plaster from Weymouth College in Dorst.

Stained Glass.

The stained glass conservation is also a huge beautiful place in the cathedral that also needs to be conserved and maintained to be kept bright and colourful.

Leonie Seliger is head of the Stained Glass Conservation Department. She also advices the Dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester on faculty applications involving restoration/conservation as well as new designs for windows in the churches of the dioceses.

For our project we decided to focus on the stonemasonry as Heather is the one who wants the documentary for the Youtube Channel so we thought it would be better to choose stonemasonry as Heather is extremely knowledgable about it and would be able to steer us in the right direction on who t talk to and what to focus on. Another reason we chose to focus on stonemasonry is because the stonemason yard has it's own course called the CWF - Canterbury Workshop Fellowship. This follows young apprentices on a 5 year course which begins at college level to then a degree level to become a fully trained stonemason. We want to create a fresh, unique video which is a promotional video on what the investors are putting there money into - the apprentice course.