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Tewkesbury Civic Society

Protecting Tewkesbury's Architectural Heritage and ensuring today's developments add positively to it.
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PLaques


The original idea behind the TCS plaques was to bring attention to buildings of historical and/or architectural significance and the sites of various lost industries or occupations. All within the Conservation Area.

The process of producing each plaque is the same, firstly to identify the site then research the history and condense the facts to approximately 100 words. Next, permission from the site owner is sought and once given a Listed Building application is made (if necessary) then if permitted an order is placed, the text is sent to the manufacturers and we get a proof before we commission. Manufacture takes 3-4 weeks and then we use the services of a builder to erect them. The whole process takes several months.

When we first started this project a lot of research was done as to the style of plaque, what material to use etc. Maureen Turland of this Society designed a plaque style with a simplified TCS logo at the top with colours cream ground and black lettering. Other societies (Railway, Historical, Old Theocsbrian, Fair) liked what we had done so we developed several more in co-operation with them thus keeping a uniform style throughout the town. The plaques cost in the region of £400 - £600 each.
 
​Here are pictures of the plaques so far installed:
At the time of writing two more are in plan, one for the Medieval row of houses in Church Street placed on the Crescent gable end and one for the Baptist Chapel placed on the St. Mary’s Road rear wall. 

We are now looking at presenting an award for significant alteration, renovation to properties within the town. This could take the form of a small plaque and/or document to commemorate the work and to acknowledge the effort made by the owners, presented perhaps at a small ceremony?  

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  • Home
  • Issues
    • Borough Mills redevelopment
    • Spring Gardens redevelopment
    • Tewkesbury Garden Town project
    • Housing sites close to town
    • Roads and crossings
    • Current planning applications of interest
    • Unfinished permitted developments
    • Developments without permission
    • Riverfront
    • Bin blight and other environmental problems
  • Activities
    • Talks
    • Trips
    • Planning Application Review
    • Plaques
    • Community Projects
    • Conservation Area Protection
  • Policies
    • General
    • National Planning Policy Framework
    • Joint Core Strategy
    • Tewkesbury Borough Plan
    • Tewkesbury Town Neighbourhood Plan
    • Tewkesbury Town Masterplan
    • Tewkesbury Heritage Strategy
    • Conservation Areas
    • National and Local Heritage Lists
    • Buildings at Risk
    • Shopfront Design
    • Community Infrastructure Levy
  • About Us
    • Objectives
    • Origins
    • Membership
    • Officers
    • Communications
    • Civic Voice
  • Pictures
    • Trip Pictures
    • Event Pictures
    • Historic Pictures
  • Useful Links
  • News