OXFORD Thames Four Pillars Hotel received one of 13 environmental awards from the Oxford Preservation Trust.

The hotel, set in 30 acres of parkland with frontage on to the River Thames at Sandford on Thames, was created from a group of medieval buildings with modern additions.

The scheme was the work of Builders Ede at Witney with input from the Oxford Planning Partnership/Peter Thompson and the hotel operators.

John Oldman, project manager at Four Pillars head office, said: "We are delighted to have been nominated for this award, but to actually win the award is brilliant."

The environmental awards were first presented by the trust as part of its 1977 jubilee celebrations.

Other winners of the renovation and conversion category were Christ Church Cathedral for a new lighting installation (by Light Projects); Yamanouchi Research Institute's company headquarters Cherwell Building at Littlemore (AMEC Design and Management) and upgrading of safety and security at staircase five at St Edmund Hall (Howes Allen & Montgomery). The winner of the landscape award was the garden of the Friary Centre in Paradise Square, Oxford (P. J. Gordon and M. A. Shearman).

New building awards went to the University of Oxford's post-graduate medical and dental education centre (BBG Architects); replica gates at St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Elsfield (Keith Aldridge); the pavilion at Wootton Playing Field, Wootton, near Abingdon (Alan Hall Associates); reconstruction of the First Church of Christ Scientist in St Giles, Oxford (The Bozeat Partnership); offices for staff and nurses at A. G. Palmer House, Littlemore Mental Health Centre (Berman Guedes Stretton); a 24-bed hostel and outpatient department at Willows House, Littlemore Hospital (Berman Guedes Stretton); a family house in Mill Street, Osney (Adrian James) and Oxford City Council Offices in Blue Boar Street, Oxford (Architects Design Partnership).

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