A £320,746 investment through the Museum Estate and Development fund will help recover post-pandemic costs for urgent maintenance repairs to the Museum of Bath Architecture’s Countess of Huntington’s Chapel and manse, ensuring the long-term structural integrity of the building and therefore safeguarding the treasured collections within it.

Alex Sherman, CEO of Bath Preservation Trust, said: “Maintenance of buildings is at the very top of the energy hierarchy – the first step in the conservation of any building – so the work that this grant will fund is absolutely vital to the overall conservation of both the physical building and the museum collection within. We are really pleased that Arts Council England have recognised the importance of the building and its individual challenges. The MEND fund is hugely competitive so we are really lucky to get it, and very thankful.”