Explore
Digital explorations of Barts North Wing and the restoration project
Digital guide of the surrounding area
Our digital guide can be viewed on your own device. This tour allows you to explore the Henry VIII Gatehouse, Barts the Less Church, the hospital Square, and provides a short introduction to Barts North Wing. Please note that this is not a guide of the building.
Sharing Historic Barts – project video
In this 10 minute video you’ll be introduced to the project team behind the conservation and restoration works and learn why saving this historic Grade I listed building was so important.
Sharing Historic Barts project video
Scaffolding – timelapse videos
These videos show the internal and external scaffolding builds, and their dismantling to reveal the restored North Wing at the completion of the project.
External scaffolding enveloped the North Wing for the duration of the project. Watch it gradually come down to reveal the restored exterior.
Internal scaffolding in the Great Hall was suspended from the external scaffold by spars taken through the window openings, allowing access to restore the ceiling.
Conservation videos
During the conservation, repair and restoration works in 2024, filmographers Squeaky Pedal captured the conservation works in action and interviewed the craftspeople involved. This included roofers, glaziers, wood restorers, and paintings conservators.
Conservation in action
Glimpses of our team of expert conservators at work restoring the floors, the Charter Window, the windows and the ceiling in the Great Hall.
Charter Window
This short clip looks at some of the work of Holywell Glass who expertly restored and conserved the Charter Window in the Great Hall.
The Hogarth paintings
Specialists in the in-situ conservation of paintings in historic buildings Paine & Stewart were commissioned to restore and conserve Hogarth’s masterpieces.