OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS OR SO, I have become mildly obsessed about the fate of a perfect example of arts-and-crafts architecture — the Church Institute in Llanfairfechan, a seaside resort off the coast road between Conway and Bangor in North Wales.
In early July last year, I received a text from Andrew Hinchcliff who has devotedly looked after the Church Institute and the adjacent Churchmen’s Club, telling me that he and his fellow trustee of the Institute, Pam Phillips, its architect’s granddaughter, had come to the reluctant conclusion that
