Thursday 26 November 2009

Stone repairs




Many years ago, 1989 I think, I drew up and specified repairs to window mullions in an Oxfordshire church. They were split where the ferrementa (the iron framing used to support larger leaded windows) had corroded and had previously been repaired with iron straps, which had also corroded and caused further damage. The internal sections of the mullions had several hundred years of grafitti and were to be retained and consolidated. The new mullions were in Taynton limestone and the ferrementas were repaired with stainless ends to prevent future corrosion. Richard Noviss did the work.

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