St Mary's Church Paddington Green
Georgian Church High-level Restoration in the Parish of Little Venice
Client:
PCC of Parish of Little Venice
Completed:
June 2025
Category:
Places of Worship
Contract Duration:
52 Weeks
Architect:
Greenwood Projects
What we did...
- Restoration & Repairs
- Stone Masonry & Brickwork
- Structural / Roofing
- Leadwork
- Specialist Services
- Redecoration & Plastering
Acting as Principal Contractors, USL have recently completed a restoration and repair project at Grade II* St Mary’s Church in Paddington Green. Working in partnership with Greenwood Projects, our team undertook a restoration scheme including internal plasterwork, external masonry and repairs to the cupola.
St Mary’s is an Anglican church in the Parish of Little Venice, London, and forms part of the Paddington Green conservation area. Today, it stands at the junction of Edgware Road and Harrow Road.
The current Georgian church was commissioned in 1788 and consecrated in 1791. Designed by John Plaw with a Greek Cross ground plan, in yellow London stock brick dressed with ashlar dressings. It is one of two confirmed surviving buildings by Plaw in the UK.
Programme Overview:
- High level masonry repairs to remove iron cramps and replace damage stones
- Repairs and redecoration of the cupola and weathervane
- Localised repairs to the slate roofs and reconfiguration of the lead parapet gutters and laying
- new sandcast lead
- Raising of the blocking course to accommodate the new gutters levels
- Brick and stone repairs to all external elevations
- Excavation around the West Porch and installation of stainless-steel stitching to tie the Porch foundations to the Church
- Construction of a new stone ramp with steel handrails to the south entrance
- Repairs to the below ground drainage including CCTV survey and unblocking of other routes
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