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Proposals for a new house in South London
June 12, 2022We’ve prepared preliminary designs for an exciting new house to be located in a large and landscaped park setting. The proposals are currently being reviewed by the planners. The new house takes its cue from its Arts-and-Crafts neighbours as we...
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New Roof at St Mary’s, Aylesbury
May 12, 2022On site this spring and summer, the lead roof to the Chancel at St Mary’s, Aylesbury, is being replaced as part of a phased programme of repairs to this historic Grade I listed church. Last year’s phase of works included high level stonework re...
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RICS Heritage Awards – Two projects Shortlisted!
March 21, 2022We are delighted that our repair projects at St Mary’s Aylesbury and the Tower at Holy Trinity Tooting have both been shortlisted by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors for their Heritage Award 2022....
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Restoration of Lantern at St Margaret’s, Uxbridge
March 11, 2022The lantern over the baptismal font at St Margaret’s, Uxbridge, has leaked form many years. We recently completed a project to replace the leaded lights and renew the oak cladding....
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St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street
February 24, 2022The interior refurbishment scheme is well underway with rewiring, relighting, fire detection, door upgrades for fire separation and the formation of a new administration office being on site. The bespoke chandelier is also being made and it is expe...
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Alterations to a house in Bromley
September 22, 2021A planning application has been submitted for major alterations and extensions to a large house near Bromley, originally designed by noted Arts-and-Crafts architect, C H B Quennell. The designs will provide much needed amenity space while preserving ...
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Relighting of Church
August 21, 2021The church of St Peter’s, South Croydon, was rewired and all lighting renewed under the direction of CES Lighting and Electrical LLP. As architect, we oversaw the project and designed many of the bespoke new light fittings to complement and pick up...
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New stone roof for a church in Oxfordshire
May 20, 2021Recently completed was the complete reroofing of the historic church of St Michael above the picturesque village of Clifton Hampden. The roofs were recovered with Cotswold stone slates and the opportunity was taken to undertake high level stone wal...
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Croydon Tower Repairs
May 14, 2021Generously supported by a grant from the Covid Recovery Fund, the walls and parapets of the tower at the Grade I listed Croydon Minster were recently conserved and repaired. Deteriorating areas of stonework had begun to come loose and the works inc...
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Portsmouth Cathedral west end repairs
April 13, 2021The Covid Recovery Fund award has enabled the split and rotten lead covered west end finials to both west end towers to be replaced, high level stonework repointed and the windows decorated....
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St Peter and St Paul, Edenbridge
March 12, 2021The access and decoration project at the Church completed in time for Christmas. The works included a new glass and oak framed screen within the porch, with automated doors, a new path with shallower gradient and an apron of stone paving outside th...
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Community-driven restoration
March 5, 2021It has been a pleasure working with the PCC of Holy Trinity Church in Tooting, on the repairs and access improvements to their church tower. ...
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St Peter and St Paul Edenbridge
September 15, 2020The interior refurbishment and access project is well underway on site. The scaffolding for the decoration of the interior gives access to inspect the interesting roof timberwork....
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Holy Trinity Tooting
September 3, 2020The major Tower repair project was completed in late summer with numerous Bath and Ragstone repairs to the exterior, a new slate and lead covered roof and internal access gantries....
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Victoria Hall, Sheffield
August 8, 2020The masterplan has been completed, including proposals for equal access to the front of the building, refurbished foyers and the main Hall, a proposal for a series of hydraulic stages within the main Hall, including one descending down to the lower g...
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Restored Lych Gate
April 18, 2020The 1920’s lych gate at St John’s, Enfield, was sinking and had become unstable. The whole structure was surveyed, numbered and dismantled before being re-erected on a new piled foundation. New sections of timber were carefully spliced in where n...
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New Slate Roof and Solar Panels
April 15, 2020The roofs of the small urban church of St Paul in Marylebone were renewed using welsh slates and the opportunity was taken to install solar panels to provide for the energy needs for this busy parish. High level repairs to parapets and rooflights wer...
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Holy Trinity Tooting: Tower repairs
March 4, 2020The scaffolding and temporary roof has enabled a closer inspection of the high-level Bath stonework to the cornice and the Ragstone of the elevations, all in very poor condition with ‘live’ areas of masonry. The masonry adjacent to the boiler flu...
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Victoria Hall
December 17, 2019We are delighted to be appointed to another important listed building and a sizeable Methodist Central Hall – the early twentieth century Hall in the centre of Sheffield. The Hall, part of the Forward Movement, was originally designed by Waddin...
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Lych gate saved
October 28, 2019The small Victorian church at Clay Hill, Enfield, built a lych gate as a memorial to the fallen of the Great War using surplus funds from a bell appeal. After 100 years of service this simple oak framed structure was leaning dangerously, from subside...
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Quinquennial time
October 28, 2019It has been a busy time over the last couple of months for undertaking quinquennial inspections, including at St Botolph, Lullingstone, St Martin’s, Eynsford, St Olave’s in Woodberry Down and Downe Village Hall in Kent. Further inspections will b...
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Lighting one of London’s hidden treasures
October 28, 2019We are delighted to continue working with the Order of St John in Clerkenwell as their conservation consultant and with lighting designer Charles Marsden-Smedley to relight the historic twelfth century vaulted crypt. The grade one listed crypt is one...
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Re-ordering ideas are progressing
October 28, 2019The ideas to re-order the interior of St Peter and St Paul in Edenbridge are progressing. The planned works include relocating the font, replacing the modern pews with chairs and complete redecoration as well as adapting the south porch for equal acc...
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Lottery success!
October 28, 2019The Church of Holy Trinity in Tooting have been successful in their application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant to repair the listed tower. This, along with a grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation, is very good news as both awards will e...
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Feasibility study
October 27, 2019Following on from the quinquennial we were pleased to take forward a report looking at altering the interior of the church of St James in West Hampstead. The church is a large listed Victorian building and is unusual as it has a popular post office.....
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New York completion
October 27, 2019The new timber framed ‘Shingle’ style house in the Hamptons has been completed and the client has moved in. The house contains much custom joinery and sweeping, open staircase. Large and expansive windows allow for bright, floodlit interiors whil...
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Blending new with the existing
October 15, 2018The refurbishment, alterations and sizeable extensions to a private house, which we completed late last year, have blended seamlessly with the existing. The new landscaping is also maturing well....
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A Tower with a view
October 8, 2018Lollard’s Tower at Lambeth Palace is named after the nickname for heretics, who were reputed to have been imprisoned in the atmospheric timber lined cell to the top floor. The imposing Kentish Ragstone tower dates from 1435 and was built by Archbis...
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A landmark spire is shingled
October 8, 2018The fine listed church of St Mary the Virgin at the village of Laverstoke, Hampshire, designed by noted Victorian architect John L Pearson in 1896, had suffered weathering and woodpecker damage to the shingled roof of the landmark spire. The project,...
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Ragtime at the Quarry
October 8, 2018As we are well underway with major repairs to the Kentish Ragstone Tower at Lambeth Palace we took the opportunity of accepting an invitation to visit the Gallagher Hermitage quarry at Maidstone. Our morning visit was very informative to see the extr...
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Holy Trinity Church, Tooting
June 7, 2018We are pleased to have been appointed to repair the Kentish Rag and Bath stone tower designed by Benjamin Ferrey in 1860 as an addition to the church, which was designed 1854/55 by Anthony Salvin. The aim is to commence the repair works on site......
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A clearer view
March 5, 2018The nine large north Quire windows are being repaired and cleaned and will be returned to Portsmouth Cathedral in time for Easter....
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Abletts latest instruction
March 5, 2018We are delighted to be appointed to the historic church of Ss Peter and Paul Edenbridge, dating back to at least 1120 and already be involved in initial thoughts as how to celebrate its 900 years...
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A rapid build
March 5, 2018It is exciting to see images of Daniel’s concept designs are being taken forward on site. At this rate it will soon be completed....
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