PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: English Heritage Location: Oundle, Northamptonshire Architect: Rodney Melville and Partners Contractor: E Bowmans Value: £400,000 Programme: 40 Weeks Materials: Sand Cast Lead Sheet After many years of neglect this country mansion has had its first phase of restoration. Being part of the team to help save the oldest Jacobein House […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Diocese of St. Albans Location: Willian, Hertfordshire Architect: Alan Greening Architect, Southwold Contractor: CEL Ltd Value: £160,000 Programme: 9 Month Materials: Stonework, Timber, Slate The brief required the re-slating of the nave and chancel roofs and timber repairs to the front structure of the church. Insufficient strength in the retaining […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Church Commissioner of England Location: Lambeth Palace Road, London Architect: Richard Griffiths Architect, London Value: £375,000 Programme: 26 Weeks Materials: Masonry and Stonework repairs The lead covered roof to Cranmer’s Tower needed replacing due to the inevitable failure of the existing material. Rebuilding decorative brickwork is never easy let […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Brooksby PCC Location: Brooksby, Leicester Architect: Pick Everard, Leicester Contractor: CEL Ltd Value: £120,000 Programme: 8 Month Materials: Stonework, Slate, Timberwork The brief included the production and installation of new oak louvres to tower windows, the removal of lead parapet gutters and eave slates to the nave roof, re-ordering of […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Fitzhugh Family Location: Bersham – Wrexham Architect: Tim Ratcliffe Contractor: C.E.L Value: £95,000 Programme: 16 Weeks Materials: Zinc, Carpentry, Castiron Rainwaters St Mary’s Plas Power is a wonderfully charming and picturesque church situated at the heart of the peaceful village of Bersham, near Wrexham in North Wales. The first time […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Location: Swineshead Architect: Anderson & Glenn Architects This restoration has allowed the church to continue to be the pillar for the community of Swineshead and indeed the surrounding villages. When the roof began to collapse following the removal of the lead covering CEL knew major timberworks […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Churches Conservation Trust Location: Northamptonshire Architect: Marshall Sissons Contractor: C.E.L Value: £125,000 Programme: 20 Weeks Materials: Stonework, Carpentry, Stainless Steel, Lead Protecting the future of the Redundant church was an integral part of the contract works An instruction we were disappointed to receive came from architects Marshall Sissons who were […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Southoe PCC Location: Cambridgeshire Architect: Freeland Rees Roberts Contractor: C.E.L Value: 85,000 Programme: 20 Weeks Materials: Carpentry, Stonework, Leadwork Sat prominently in the centre of the village the church had suffered the wear and tare of many years unstoppable weather conditions. This had left much of the pointing around the […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Wadenhoe PCC Location: Northamptonshire Architect: Freeland Rees Roberts Contractor: C.E.L Value: £115,000 Programme: 26 Weeks Materials: Carpentry, Stainless Steel, Stonework The parish had been without a permanent roof since the 1950’s and welcomed the service of CEL Metal thefts are a very prominent issue in the ecclesiastical world at this […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Defense Estates Location: Sandhurst Architect: PDG Green Contractor: Interserve Projects Services Value: £800,000 Programme: 11 Months Materials: Welsh Slate, Sandcast Lead, VM Zinc