North Yorkshire · 2024
Lowfield Chapel
Redundant since 1987, roofless since 2009, and still the tallest room for four miles.
Project
- Location
- North Yorkshire
- Completed
- 2024
- Area
- 180 m²
- Type
- Cultural
- Listing
- Grade II
- Status
- Open to the public
01
A roof, a floor, and nothing else
The brief asked for a small performance space. The building already was one. What it did not have was a roof, a level floor or a door that shut, and the whole budget went to those three things. There is no lighting rig, no raked seating and no foyer, because the moment any of them existed the room would have needed to be about them.
Roof 
East window 
In use
The cheapest intervention was also the only respectful one, which does not happen often enough to be a method.
Something comparable?
We take on three or four buildings a year.