St John's Church, Old Malden
Jacobean Tower Receives Urgent Repairs
What we did...
- Restoration & Tower Repairs
- Stone Masonry & Brickwork
- Stone Cleaning with DOFF
- Repointing
- Mortar Repairs
USL were pleased to work at the Grade II Listed St John’s Church in Old Malden to restore the historic fabric of the Jacobean Tower.
The church is of Saxon origin and is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The old flint walls of the chancel were repaired in 1611 and the nave and the tower rebuilt in brick (the present Lady Chapel). A new nave and chancel were added in 1875.
This is the largest repair programme undertaken in the last twenty years following a recent Quinquennial Report.
This conservation plan focussed on the deteriorating state of the Tower. The Tower walls are constructed in early 17th-century brick. Its four-hundred-year-old bricks were crumbling due to the mortar forcing water damage. Previous repointing used ordinary cement mortar; this was changed for lime-mortar.
The parapet and roof needed repairs and, while the roof is in a good state of repair, water had made its way into several parts of the wider building with damp affects the church building, resulting in damaging plaster and stonework.
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