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inflation, shortages of bricks because of the three-day week, and strikes. But through it all the relationship between the
College and its architect and his partners remained steadfast. Michael himself wrote in an article for the College Magazine in 1977"For a client to place trust in his architect, quantity surveyor and contractor must surely be unique but this what happened at Wolfson College, Cambridge."
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where he created a fine two-acre garden behind his house. Besides many other village interests and activities, he had designed the new
Vicarage, served as Chairman of the Parish Council and Churchwarden of the well-known All Hallows Church (where Lawrence Sterne had been Priest) and where he had been
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in London, where they had many large-scale commissions. He also obtained a Town
Planning Diploma by part-time study. Mennim "took great pride in being a 'man of York' ... having lived and worked in or near that fine City for the great majority of his life" (see 'Obituary' below). Mennim's funeral was
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which meant that they had under their care around 300 churches of varying ages, each of which had to be fully inspected every five years. This assured a continual supply of work. The partnership grew in size to cope with its many commissions, which concentrated on church-related work including new
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Mennim's conservation work led to a close association with St Magnus
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There had been many false starts in the early years when
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on its growing collection of historic buildings and to other organisations with interests in such buildings. But he was first and foremost dedicated to his City of York, where he had undertaken many commissions and restorations (for some notable restorations such as
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eminence of the architects they had already interviewed and some of whose buildings they had visited. In the hope of resolving the impasse, Plommer put Mennim's name forward.
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he received architectural awards) and had been Master of the
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