HTB Courtfield Gardens St Jude's Church, Kensington
Grade II* Victorian Gothic Church Receives External Repairs & Cleaning
Client:
HTB Courtfield Gardens
Completed:
2025
Category:
Places of Worship
Contract Duration:
20 Weeks
Architect:
HTB Estates
What we did...
- Restoration
- Stone Masonry & Repairs
- External Stone Cleaning
- Repointing
- New Stone Carvings & Cross
- Window Repairs
USL restoration team were pleased to work at the Grade II * Victorian Gothic church in Kensington known as St Jude’s - HTB Courtfield Gardens. Designed by architects George Godwin and Henry Godwin, this church is now home to a vibrant informal congregation and St Mellitus College, sitting prominently on Collingham Road SW5.
Our stone specialists carried out a restoration programme including external stone conservation, repairs, stone cleaning and new stone carvings to the west and north ends of the building.
In the Gothic style, the church is known for its Kentish ragstone jumper-work with stone dressings as well as steeply pitched gabled roofs with bands of pale and dark grey slates and shingled spire.
The programme incorporated:
West End Repairs
- Dismantling exiting apex stone with reusing elements
- Rebuilding apex stone with integrated gablets
- New stone cross carving
- Removal of damaged coping stones and fixing new
- Creation and fixing of new kneeler stone
- Window repairs to inserts
- Lime mortar repairs
- Repairs to west end gable wall upper string course with new stone elements
- Hoodmoulds – new stone and repointing
- Repointing around window tracery
- Window repairs
- New apex stone to buttress gablet
- Careful dismantling and rebuilding of west porch stone pinnacles
- New carved springer stone with repairs to string course
- Ragstone repairs and repointing to west-end elevation
- External cleaning
North End Repairs
- Extensive stone repairs and replacements including apex stone to buttress gablet
- Repairs and new stone inserts on west buttress string course.
- Repointing works
- Repairs to broken windows
- External cleaning
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