QUINLAN AND FRANCIS TERRY ARCHITECTS

About the team
Quinlan & Francis Terry Architects planned to work in partnership with sculptors Tim Lees and Harry Brockway.

Based in Essex, the firm of Quinlan & Francis Terry specializes in traditional buildings of a classical design. The practice has considerable experience of projects in the UK and overseas.

Senior partner Quinlan Terry is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. From 1996 to 1998 he was a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission. He holds the European Prize for the Reconstruction of the City of Archives d'Architecture Moderne. In 2005 he won the Richard H Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. He now works in partnership with his son, Francis, who qualified as an architect from Cambridge University in 1994.

Tim Lees and Harry Brockway have been working together on large-scale projects for five years. Tim Lees is a sculptor and stone carver who has worked for the National Trust Statuary Workshop and as a tutor and examiner for City & Guilds of London Art School. He has worked as a freelance sculptor since 2001. Harry Brockway is a stone carver and wood engraver who has worked at Wells Cathedral and the Royal Mint.

Web site: www.qftarchitects.net

Statement of approach to the project
The team planned to build a stone memorial along classical lines, using traditional techniques. The carving and decoration would make reference to the life and work of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Relevant past projects and experience
* Private villas in Regent's Park for the Crown Estate Commissioners (1988-2004)
Six Classical villas were created in the north-west corner of Regent's Park, London, continuing the picturesque tradition established by John Nash in the early part of the nineteenth century.

* Restoration of the State rooms at Number 10 Downing Street (1988-90)
The restoration of the three State drawing rooms required the retention of three of William Kent's original fireplaces and cornices. The rest of the rooms had lost their earlier ornamentation, partly through successive incumbents and partly through bomb damage. The Kentian treatment was restored by means of new overmantels and ornate plasterwork.

* Brentwood Cathedral (1989-91)
A new cathedral was needed to replace entirely a building from 1970. Architecturally, the inspiration is early Italian Renaissance crossed with the English Baroque of Christopher Wren.

* Various sculptures by Tim Lees and Harry Brockway
Work by Tim Lees includes new sculptures for Linlithgow Palace (2003) and a marble sculpture for Belton House, National Trust (2002). Work by Harry Brockway
includes stone carvings for the King's Fountain, Linlithgow (2003) and urns for Petworth House, West Sussex (1999).