page_title: Traylen and Lenton
section_title: Conservation projects
hierarchical_section_title: Traylen and Lenton / Conservation projects
caption_attribution_description: English: Gate Arch Wharf Road Stamford
context_page_description: Traylen and Lenton was an architectural practice in Stamford, Lincolnshire. The practice had offices at 16 Broad Street, Stamford and were the successors to a line of architects working in Stamford, starting in the 1830s with Bryan Browning and continued by his son Edward Browning. The Brownings' practice was purchased by John Charles Traylen in 1888. Henry Francis Traylen became a partner in the practice and sole proprietor after his father's death in 1907. Frederick James Lenton worked as his assistant from 1908 until he became a partner in the practice with Traylen in 1921/2.
  The partnership had offices in Newark, Grantham and Peterborough, as well as Stamford.
context_section_description: While Traylen tended to concentrate on church restoration work and Lenton on secular and domestic buildings, Traylen was a forceful advocate, protecting, recording and rebuilding historic buildings in a sympathetic style if demolition was inevitable.
  Examples are:
  In 1934 he weighed in strongly against the inspectorate of the Office of Works, when they claimed  that nothing of historic value had been found during the removal of the mound of Stamford castle, for a bus station. Traylen’s photographs in Stamford Museum show details castle keep discovered during demolition and he was instrumental in moving a threatened historic doorway from 10 High Street to the only remaining upstanding part of the castle. He also  preserved the threatened 17th century building behind the Stamford Mercury office,  which  was re-erected on the  Sheep Market frontage of the bus station.
  In 1937 he saved the 1845 monumental arch during the widening of Wharf Road in 1937 by repositioning it parallel to the street. It survived then and also the recent redevelopment of the site. 
  In 1938 he saved a 17th-century bay from a demolished house in St Leonard’s Street and moved it to Barnack to front the house of the artist Wilfrid Wood.
caption: Portal to Grant's iron foundry on Wharf Road, Stamford by Browning (1845); moved by Traylen in 1937
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