The Currey Award

History

Professor Harry Currey established the Chrystal Currey Award in 1974 in memory of his late wife Chrystal. She was the first Secretary to the Civic Society, formed in 1965 to counter the threat to demolish the Corn Exchange and rebuild the town centre.
The Civic Society, under the leadership of Henry Moore then living at Perry Green, successfully persuaded the Public Enquiry that the Corn Exchange and the very heart of the market town should be protected and preserved. However, several notable buildings – including the Georgian offices of the Urban District Council and the open-air swimming pool donated to the town by Sir Walter Gilbey – were destroyed, and the River was diverted from its historic course.
Harry Currey was anxious to encourage new building of lasting beauty which would enhance the appearance of the Town, and established this annual competition for an Award to recognise – in the opinion of a panel of local judges – the best contribution. When Professor Currey died in 1998 his then wife, Dr Jacqueline Currey, became President of the Society and the competition was renamed "The Currey Award".

Some Previous Winners Top

Year	Winner
2006	The Ferguson Building, Bishop's Stortford College Special Commendation for the Rhodes Arts Complex
2004	(Joint winners) Saffron Building Society & Host Terrace restaurant
2003	Herts & Essex Community Hospital
2001	Island Court
2000	Carr & Bury and the floodlighting for the churches of St Michael, Bishop's Stortford and St James, Thorley
1999	Special Commendation for Clement Joscelyne rebuilding
1997	Stort Riverbank (in the town centre)
1996	Post House Restaurant
1994	Waitrose
1993	Foxley Lodge
1991	Exceptional Award for the Town Mural
1988	Causeway House
1986	Cedar Court
1983	Coach & Horses, Hockerill
1982	Hanscombe/Flynns (now Coopers of Stortford)
1981	Windhill street lighting
1979	Whitehall College
1977	Newtown Development
1975	The Corn Exchange