{"id":163321,"date":"2025-09-27T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163321\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:41:08","slug":"blenheim-palace-paintings-to-be-restored-as-part-of-1m-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163321\/","title":{"rendered":"Blenheim Palace paintings to be restored as part of \u00a31m project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The palace said a combination of &#8220;age, climate change and penetration from rainfall&#8221; had led to the declining state of the roof, attic timbers and ceilings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Work on the roof and paintings is running concurrently, which the palace described as the &#8220;most ambitious undertaking&#8221; in its history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC was shown water damage to the Thornhill painting&#8217;s surrounding stonework being painstakingly cleaned by conservators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kelly O&#8217;Driscoll, head of Built Heritage at Blenheim Palace, said the painting had been damaged by years of dirt and water ingress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We could end up losing this painting&#8230; it&#8217;s a race against time to get it looked after&#8221;, she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The palace said a combination of &#8220;age, climate change and penetration from rainfall&#8221; had led to the declining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-163321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}