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The Rotunda Museum, Scarborough:

 

    Client:   Scarborough Borough Council  
    Architect:   Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams  
    Quantity Surveyor:   Appleyard and Trew LLP  
    Contract Period:   52 weeks  

 

The Rotunda is one of the oldest purpose built museums in Britain still fulfilling its original role. Overlooking Scarborough’s South Bay this small, handsome building is an important part of Britain’s scientific heritage. In May 2006, the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded just under £2m towards the redevelopment of the Rotunda Museum as a centre of geology for the region.

William Anelay was contracted to carry out some essential external stonemasonry repairs and to cover the existing dome roof with a new lead covering. The contract includes the demolition of some internal walls, some internal re-ordering and a new build extension to the front of the property in keeping with the original structure. This now provides a new entrance area, offices and toilet facilities and allows access from the path to the building at basement level. The existing spiral staircase was removed and a new one installed allowing for a lift shaft in the centre. The museum was closed during the restoration and once internally fitted out was re-opened to the public in May 2008.

 

The Rotunda Museum, Scarborough


William Smith, dubbed ‘Father of English Geology’ came to Scarborough after his release from debtors’ prison where the dramatic coastline offered him an area of geological richness. The Rotunda Museum was built to Smith’s design suggestion and the original display of fossils illustrated his ideas.

For more information on the museum, click on the link below:

www.rotundamuseum.org.uk