{"id":78893,"date":"2018-02-04T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leap-of-faith-from-abandoned-chapel-to-heavenly-home\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T06:03:14","slug":"leap-of-faith-from-abandoned-chapel-to-heavenly-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/leap-of-faith-from-abandoned-chapel-to-heavenly-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Leap of faith: from abandoned chapel to heavenly home"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHow a Yorkshireman converted a Methodist chapel into a place to live \u2013 and a dramatic backdrop to his art collectionYorkshireman Mark Hinchliffe can vividly recall the spark that ignited his love of collecting. It happened in Leeds City Museum when, as a boy, he stood transfixed in front of a stuffed Indian tiger, its paws bigger than his head. The memory still burns bright 40 years later as he shows me round the 19th century, former Methodist chapel in Harrogate that he has restored and turned into a home \u2013 one he shares with his own vast, \u201cbonkers\u201d collection of art and artefacts. Here, a clutch of feather hats, there a fragment of antique French tapestry, hanging in the \u201cgentlemen\u2019s club room\u201d brocaded military jackets from conflicts past. It\u2019s not exactly a museum \u2013 Hinchliffe sometimes wears the jackets while cycling round town \u2013 but this is clearly more than just interior decoration. For one thing, every object has a story.\u201cI was the kid on the beach who picked up a stone with a hole in it and wondered how that came about,\u201d says designer Hinchliffe. \u201cI once bumped into Antony Gormley and asked him what it was about the stone with a hole in it and he said: \u2018I don\u2019t know, I\u2019ve been trying to work that out my whole life.\u2019 There is no answer. It\u2019s still working its magic.\u201d Continue reading…
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