| St James Church, Birlingham, Worcestershire |
The quinquennial report for the The Church of St James in the village of Birlingham in Worcestershire had picked up the need for stone replacements on the tower. A new mullion was fixed on the East elevation and several stones on the string course beneath the belfry windows were decayed and allowing water to run down the surface of the stonework. The new stone was Grinshill sandstone that was the nearest match to the original sandstone.
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| Barnwell Castle, Oundle, Northamptonshire |
 Barnwell Castle is a ruined castle south of Oundle. It is a Grade I Listed Building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Work has started on the consolidation of the wall tops at the Castle. Due to heavy vegetation growth in the past some of the face and core stones have been disrupted and now pose a health and safety hazard. Stones are to be rebedded where possible using a hydraulic lime mortar.
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| The Court House Warwick |
This Grade I Listed building was designed and built by Francis Smith between 1724 and 1731. The court house has a ballroom above it and a figure of Justice that was made by Thomas Stayner above the main doorway. The town council chamber still has original court room fittings including ironwork by Benjamin King and Thomas Paris.
Repair work to the Court house included repairs to the lead guttering and slate roofs, repairs to a timber casement window and some internal refurbishments.
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| St Mary's Church Hinckley |
Repair work to the church consisted of renewing decaying masonry within the church spire, repointing external stonework around the church and within the clock chamber in the towerand repairs to the cast iron guttering around the church. |
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| St Mary's Church Leamington Spa |
  St Mary's Church is a brick church with stucco facades.
It was built between 1838-9 and is a Grade II Listed Building.
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| St Laurence's Church Rowington, near Warwick |
 Various masonry repairs were carried out to the church.
These included replacing decayed mullions, hood moulds and stones within a buttress. All stones were Grinshill White sandstone.
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| Abbotts Hill School near Hemel Hempstead |
 The school was built around 1830 from Portland stone. Unfortunately it was built using iron cramps that are now, due to corrosion, causing damage to the face of some of the stones.
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| All Saint's Church Leamington Hastings |
  We were engaged to carry out various conservation repairs on the fabric of the church.
The majority of the work was on the church Tower
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| • St Mary's Church, Bloxham Oxfordshire |
  Two Gargoyles and five decorative Chimera sculptures have been conserved on the South side of the church.
Due to general wear and tear and structural problems with bedding planes the figures were inspected and each conserved using stainless steel pins, lime grouts, matching lime mortars and shelter coats.
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| • St Peter's Chapel at Steane Park Northamptonshire |
 
Over twenty pinnacles on the roof of the Aisles and Nave roofs were in various states of disrepair.
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| • Sibbertoft - Grade II Timber Framed listed
building |
 This
Grade II timber framed Listed Building had been re-rendered
in the 1980's with a cement render!! This had cracked when
the structure seasonally moved, these cracks then let water
into the structure and into the property.
The cracked panels were removed, any lose brick panels taken
down and rebuilt and then re-rendered with a non-hydraulic
mix. Finally three coats of external grade limewash were
applied.
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| • Churchyard Cross. (Grade 1) Church of
St James Somerton Oxfordshire |
The medieval cross stands in the churchyard
of the church at Somerton. It's shaft stands approximately
1.5 metres high above a square base, comprising of a square
4-step marlstone plinth, the lowest step of which has a deep
chamfered nosing. The head of the cross has almost indecipherable
carvings on all 4 faces, and the top corners of the base are
carved with heads. The cross was dismantled some time ago
as it appeared unstable and the iron cramps were exerting
pressure on the stonework. The work involved carefully replacing
the existing iron cramps with stainless steel. One section
of one of the stones was in two pieces and this was dowelled
together. The base stones were then rebedded and repointed
with a lime based mortar.
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| • Kings Sutton - Window repairs to The
Church of St Peter's and St Paul's. |
Seven windows are being conserved on the North Aisle,
South Aisle and Chancel.
Work involved cleaning down, pinning and grouting cracked
stonework, sheltercoating and painting the iron window grills.
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| • St Mary's Church, Bloxham Oxfordshire |
The 200 year old Sun Dial lay at the
bottom of the Southern Elevation of the Tower. It was taken
down some years ago and was re-instated in its original
position on the external wall against the bell chamber window.
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| • Limewashing at Guilsborough, Northamptonshire |
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property was limewashed with three coats of Buttermilk coloured
pure limewash applied onto a porous background it will enable
the structure to breath.
The
house has been previously lime rendered onto a cob structure
so any modern paint system would have been detrimental. |
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| • Wormleighton Manor Gatehouse |
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Wormleighton Manor Gatehouse and Tower Cottage is
a Grade II* Listed Building. It was built for Sir Robert,
first Lord Spencer in 1613.
It is mainly Ironstone ashlar, with moulded stone cornices, string courses and
parapets. The lath and plaster ceiling under the archway was in need of repair.
Although the laths were in a sound condtion the plaster ceiling was taken down
due to its bad state of repair. Traditional haired coarse stuff was used
together with a lime rich top coat and limewash.
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| • Repairs to
Clarke's Bridge, Grantham Canal |
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Client: British Waterways
Main Contractor: Galliford Try
This is a Listed Building: Grade II and Listed Building
Consent was required. Extensive repairs were carried out to
strengthen and improve the structure. A new concrete saddle was
placed to improve the weight bearing capacity for vehicular
access. Brick repairs were carried out involving rebuilding
the parapets, repairs to the spandrels and the arch brickwork.
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 • The Stone House, Thornby, Northamptonshire.
This house is constructed from Northamptonshire
stone which is quite a soft stone that can erode when in an exposed,
aggressive environment.
The areas of the house that were conserved were in and around the
ground floor front windows.
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This
house is made with soft machine made brick from the late 19th century.
Due to movement within the structure, some of the gauged brick
arches had slipped and pushed forward, due to debris dropping behind
the arch.
The
cob barn is a central feature in Guilsborough but it has been suffering
from a common earth building problem of water entering through the base
due to a raised ground level.
