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Alan Lamb

Head of Historic Carving

In his early 20s Alan Lamb trained as a baroque and renaissance stringed instrument maker at the London College of Furniture (now the Metropolitan University) His work making accurate copies of ornately carved lutes, viols and citterns led to other forms of carving work and has developed into a lifetime study of historic carving and sculpture.

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Christ windsor Snake Swag Mask

Clients include organizations such as The National Trust, English Heritage, Cadw and Historic Royal Palaces and individuals as diverse as Lord Leicester and Mick Jagger. Alan has acted as an advisor to the Victoria & Albert Museum, Historic Scotland, Tate Britain, The Globe Theatre, and the BBC amongst others
In recent years he has specialized in the conservation and restoration of ornamental carving and figurative historic sculpture in a variety of materials and in the design and creation of new sculpture for contextually sensitive locations.

Selected Projects

St Georges Chapel Windsor
A new head of the infant Christ (in coadestone) for the virgin and child on the west front

Chapel of St James, Salle Norfolk
New statue of St James (Ancaster limestone)

Dorchester Abbey
A new portrait of Hugo Bruner Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire (Syreford limestone)

Tower of London (Historic Royal Palaces)
Restoration of Edward the Firsts bedchamber (circa 1300)

Holkam Hall (Lord Leicester)
New leg section and repairs to hand of 2nd century Roman statue of Emperor Lucias Veras. (Carrara statuary marble)

New College oxford
Extensive conservation of 500 carved early 16th century panels in the Dining Hall including design and reinstatement of missing carving and conservation of gilding and painted blazoning.
Reinstatement of 800 gilded elements to the 18th century garden screen


Somerset House London
Conservation and reinstatement of missing carving on the south pediment sculptures (By Nathaniel Smith 1767)
Two new gilded frames for Rysbrack bas reliefs of Horace Walpole and his wife for the Hermitage Collection



St Mary’s Church Tittleshall Norfolk
Replacement of missing figurative carving on Joseph Nollekens Tomb of Mrs. James Coke (Carrara statuary marble). Replacement of missing carving on an Elizabethan tomb (English alabaster)

 
Knole House (National Trust)
Restoration of the long gallery above the great hall
£135,000 Restoration of the 18th century Orangery
New carving in memory of Hugh Sackville-West in the chapel


Norfolk Lodge Richmond (Mick Jagger)
New rococo chimneypiece for the dining room


Windsor Castle (Historic Royal Palaces)Replacement carving to “Kneeling Knight” corbels in StGeorges Hall after the fire


Worcester Cathedral
Conservation and reinstatement of missing carving on Gilbert Scott’s Chancel Screen
 

Uppark House (National Trust)
Master Carver on site during the architectural phase of the restoration. Four new ornate pieces of rococo furniture and three elaborately carved new chimneypieces for the fitting-out phase




Broadcasting
Alan was chosen to play the sculptor Rodin in” The Kiss”, a program in BBC 2’s private life of a masterpiece series, and was filmed creating a series of maquettes from life in Rodin’s style. He presented “Uppark Restored” In the National Trust Treasure Chest Series for BBC 2 and has recently presented a short film on the restoration of Edward 1 bedchamber in the Mediaeval Royal Palace at the Tower of London.