Read about our approach to external linking. ***This talk will be recorded. It is doubtless to Burlington's intervention that about this time, before the West Front was finished, the Earl of Malton, as he had now become, commissioned Henry Flitcroft to revise Tunnicliffe's plan there and build the East Front range. Now, the project is up and running again. They were written on a roof timber in 1830 by three craftsmen repairing the area over the gilded state room where the 4th Earl Fitzwilliam kept his paintings by Flemish artist, Anthony van Dyck. Funding to refurbish the building came directly from the Treasury, with preservation of the building announced by then-chancellor Philip Hammond in his 2016 Autumn Statement along with the £7.6m grant to go towards the urgent repairs required. Work commenced on the site in 2019 and. Woodhead Group has been selected by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust (WWPT) to carry out the repair, restoration and replacement of the building’s 16,000+ square foot roof, as part of its 25-year Masterplan. Sarah Mcleod will be providing an update on the project, the Trust’s activities and life at Wentworth in a post-COVID-19 world. The suite along the E front from the Whistlejacket Room at the SE to the library at the NE end is not easily matched anywhere in England" (. Although welcoming the grant, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg dismissed a widely circulated meme claiming that his family benefited from it[52] (his mother-in-law, Lady Juliet Tadgell, inherited the estate in 1948 on the death of her father, the 8th Earl, but left the house shortly afterwards). Woodhead senior site manager Andy Stamford says that, while measures like putting boxes around priceless statues could have been tried – to protect them from workers carrying tubes through the building – they would have been time-consuming and not necessarily effective. The Fitzwilliam family archives from Wentworth Woodhouse were deposited at Sheffield Public Library in 1948. It was bought for £7 million (~$8.8 million) in March 2017 by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. From 1950-1986 it was let to West Riding County Council and its successor local authority and was used as a teacher training college, then formed part of Sheffield City Polytechnic. Joining details will be sent to attendees upon booking. Work commenced on the site in 2019 and is expected to span two decades and cost in excess of £100 million. Likewise, it is highly likely that external scaffolding will be present at some locations across the site at any given time. These tactics alone will not be enough to reach its required final bill, with WWPT seeking further grants and looking for private funders.