John M Burton, Esq

Career: architect; sr ptnr Purcell, Architects; conservation of: Wingfield Coll 1972-74, Lavenham Guildhall 1973-94, Holy Trinity Church Long Melford 1974-, Melford Hall 1975-96, Flatford Mill for Nat Tst 1979-85, Colchester Castle 1980-90, Newnham Coll Cambridge 1984-94, St Mary's Thaxted 1988-, Manor House Bury St Edmunds 1990-94, Hunsdon House Herts 1990-96; conservation advsr to the Crown Urban Estate; Surveyor to the Fabric of Canterbury Cathedral 1991-, cmmr Cathedral Fabric Cmmn for England 1996-2006, Surveyor Emeritus of Westminster Abbey 2012-; pres Cathedral Architects Assoc 1996-99, chm Redundant Churches Uses Ctee Chelmsford; memb Diocesan Advsy Ctee: Chelmsford 1975-, St Edmundsbury & Ipswich 1987-98; govr Kent Inst of Art & Design 1993-2000; memb: Inst of Historic Building Conservation, Church Cmmrs Redundant Churches Ctee, English Heritage Places of Worship Panel, Historic Built Environment Advsy Ctee 1998-2002, Cncl Nat Tst 2007-; chm Colchester Arts Centre 1985-90, dir Mercury Theatre Bd Colchester 1998-2005; Freeman City of London, Liveryman and memb Ct of Assts Worshipful Co of Masons, Liveryman Worshipful Co of Carpenters 2007; memb IHBC, RIBA, AABC