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Seven Dials Monument

London, WC2

Opened

  1989

Position Held; Apprentice & Improver

Work Carried out; New build.The original sundial column was removed in 1773 by the Paving Commissioners in an attempt to rid the area of undesirables. The replacement sundial column was constructed in 1988/89, to the original design and was unveiled by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

 

Garden House,

Throgmorton Avenue

Opened

  1987
Position Held; Improver
Work Carried out; New build. Fixed front elevation in Portland Stone and pre cast panels and rear elevation pre cast ashlar, cills jambs and heads.

 

 

 

Victoria and Albert Museum

Kensington, London

Designed Aston Webb
Opened 1909

Position held; Improver

Work Carried out; Carried out restoration and replacement of stone to the dome.

 

 

 

 

Somerset House

Strand, London, WC2

Designed Sir William Chambers
Opened Approx 1819
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Removed and replaced defective voussoirs and repointed intrados.

 

 

 

Whiteleys Store

Bayswater

Designed John Belcher and John James Joass
Opened 1911
Position Held; Stone Mason
Work Carried out; Replaced  Portland stone damaged by oxidisation of iron cramps.

 

 

 

Public Records office

Chancery Lane, WC2

Designed

Sir James Pennethorne

Opened 1855
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Removed deteriorated stone from towers, pinnacles, cupolas,  lightwells and boundary walls and replacing with new Jeamont stone worked on site.

 

 

Rutland Gate

 
Designed  
Opened  

Position Held; Stone Mason

 

Work Carried out; New build. Carved Corinthian pillaster caps and fixed windon cills, jambs and heads to rear elevation.

 

 

Canadian Pacific building

Cockspur Street, London, SW1

Designed

H. Tanner junior

Opened

1906

Position Held, Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Dismantled top two storeys to allow  replacement of steel work and rebuilt using original and some replacement stone.

 

 

 

Hackney Empire

 

Designed

Frank Matcham

Opened

1901
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out;Carried out restoration of terracota and brick

 

 

 

 

St. Paul's

Covent Garden

Designed Inigo Jones 
Opened 1633
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Cut out and refixed defective stone to pediment and quoins and repointed.

 

 

 

 

Old Lloyds Building

Billiter Street, EC3

   
   
Position held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Re fixed and restored original interior marble cladding.

 

 

 

 

St. Martins in the Field

 
Designed James Gibbs
Consecrated 1726
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Took up paving removed deteriorated plinth, worked new and replaced. Re laid paving replaced any broken.

 

 

 

Royal Court

Sloane Street,

Opened

1987

Position Held; Stone Mason
Work Carried out; New build, Pre cast stone pediment, cornice, quoins and Adams style window heads. 

 

 

 

 

Palm House, Kew Gardens

Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB

Designed Decimus Burton
Opened 1848
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Laid York stone and slate flooring to accommodate iron grills fro the heating system.

 

 

 

King Edward's Buildings

St. Martin Le Grand

Designed   Sir Henry Tanner
Opened   1895
Position Held; Stone Mason
Work Carried out; Inner part of building totally demolished and rebuilt. Restoration and replacment of stone to facia.

 

 

 

 

Savoy Hotel

 Abraham Lincoln Room

Designed  
Opened  
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Carried out conservation and replacement of Travatine wall cladding.

 

 

 

Queen's House

Greenwich

Designed Inigo Jones 
Opened 1617
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Carried out conservation and restoration of North Front terrace balustrade and Tulip Staircase.

 

 

St. Clement's Church

Hastings

Rebuilt  after the sacking of the town by the French in 1377

Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Carried out restoration and replacement of Tracery window.

 

 

 

Cadogan Square

 
Designed Harold Ainsworth Peto Sir Ernest George
Opened 1886

Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out;Carved new swags in new red rubber bricks in situ.

 

 

Tobacco Dock

 
Designed

Daniel Alexander

Opened 1813
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; Laid of York stone paving and pre cast stair cases.

 

 

Grand Buildings

Trafalgar Square, London WC2

Designed  
Opened  
Position Held; Stone Mason

Work Carried out; New Build, fixed Bath and Portland stone

 

 

Richmond House

Whitehall

Designed William Whitfield
Opened 1988
Position Held; Stone Mason
Work Carried out; New Build.Set out and fixed Bath stone in octagonal turrets.

 

 

 

St. Bartholomew the Great

Cloth Fair

Built

1123

Position Held; Foreman

Work Carried out; Carried ot conservation to 12th century door way to cloister. Conservation and replacement of stone to 14th century vaulting in cloisters.

 

 

Chambers Bridge

Woburn Abbey

Designed  
Opened  

Position Held; Foreman

Work Carried out; Dismanteled main elevation of three span bridge and rebuilding in new Portland stone

 

 

 

South Stable Block

Woburn Abbey

Designed Henry Flitcrorf
Built

1750

Position Held; Foreman

Work Carried out; Removed deteriorated  Clunch stone, work new Tottenhoe Clunch and replace.

 

 

Southan Manor

 
Built   19th century
Position Held; Foreman
Work Carried out; Totally repointed, took down and rebuilt chimney stake, removed two mullion window worked new and fixed..

 

 

CornHall

Cirencester

Designed  
Opened  
Position Held; Master Mason

Work Carried out; Carved replacement faces over first floor windows. Cleaned and repointed front elevation and replaced various deteriorated stones.

 

Wheatley Park School

 
   
Built

1815

Position Held; Master Mason

Work Carried out;Removed deteriorated Headington stone and replaced with new.

 

 

Folley

Heythrop House

Carved

1690

Position Held; Master Mason

Work Carried out; Cleaned and repointed folley , also cleaning the coat of arms and piecing on missing sections with matching natural stone.

 

 

Italianate Garden

Heythrop House

Designed Thomas Archer
Work Began 1706
Position Held; Master Mason

Work Carried out;Dismantled and rebuilt baustrade and  haha.

 

 

 

Runnymede Memorial

 
Designed

Sir Edward Maufe R.A

Opened 1953
Position Held; Master Mason

Work Carried out; Removed  bronze fittings from masonry and pieced in with portland stone.

 

 

 

Nelson Museum

Monmouth

Designed  
Opened

 

Position Held;

Work Carried out; Removed ashlar to allow for inspection of steel and fixed new ashlar. Removed entire cornice, worked new pieces to replace deteriorated and refixed.

 

Painswick House

 
Designed  
Opened  
Position Held; Master Mason
Work Carried out; Carried out restorataion and conservation of pediment over main entrance side elevation.

Moved 18th century lead statue of Pan and two 19th centurystone urns on pediments.

River Balustrade

Stoneleigh Abbey

   
Built 18th Century

Position Held;Master Mason/ Head of masonry and conservation

Work carried out; Dissmantled whole balustrade, replaced stone damaged by river flooding and refixed.

 

 

 

Gatehouse

Stoneleigh Abbey

Built by

Robert de Hockele

Completed 1346

Position Held;Master Mason/ Head of masonry and conservation

Work Carried out; Stabilised gable end, cut out deteriorated stone and replaced. Rebuilt two chimney stacks. Cut out deteriorated tracery panels worked new and replaced. Carried out conservation repairs and repointed.

 

Conservatory

Stoneleigh Abbey

   
Built 1770

Position Held; Master Mason/ Head of masonry and conservation

Work carried out; Supervised  drilling 75mm diameter holes within the thickness of the stone walls around the length and breadth of the conservatory, at high and low level, and then grouting in tie rods a ring beam was formed to prevent further movement of the structure..

 

 Charlesworthy Bridge

Stoneleigh Abbey

Designed John Rennie
Opened 1814
Position Held;Master Mason/ Head of masonry and conservation

Work carried out; Supervised removal of friable material and repointing and filling of voids with light weight lime concrete.

 

 

Westminster Hall

Palace of Westminster

Laid out

1097

Position Held;Contracts manager

Work Carried out; Relaid of stairs and paving to upper landing.

 

 

 

Windsor Castle Stables

 
 

Position Held;Contracts manager

Work Carried out; Removed coping stone fitted a DPC made new copings to relpace deteriorated and refixed.

 

 

 

 

Peers Cloak Room

Palace of Westminster

Designed

Charles Barry & Augustus W. N. Pugin

completed 1847
Position Held; Contracts manager

Work Carried out; Supervised and lead conservation and consolidation of interior stone.

 

 

All Saints Church

Gloucester

Designed Sir George Gilbert Scott
Opened 1887

Position Held;Contracts manager

Work Carried out; Supervised cleaning of  masonry using Jos and Dof systems. Removed deteriorated masonry produced moulds, cutting lists and refixed newly produced stone including tracery panels, ashlar, string course and  merlons and embrasures.

The Great Court

British Museum

Designed Foster and Partners
Opened 2000
Position Held; Master Mason

Work Carried out; Fixed large Portland lintels and trained new masons.

 

 

 

Bertholey House

 
Designed George Maddox pupil of Soane
Built 1840

Position Held; Master Mason/ Contracts manager

Work Carried out; Re designed front elevation made moulds and cutting lists  supervised banker work and fixing. Personally worked Ionic capitals and columns.

 

Lancing College Chapel

 
Designed R. H. Carpenter and William Slater
Opened 1911

Position Held; Contracts manager

Work Carried out; Carried out photographic survey, directed removal of deteriorated masonry, produced moulds and cutting lists for new masonry.Supervised day to day running of early stages of project.

Small works of interest

Highgate cemetery chapel and Egyptian Avenue, London, N6 - Adelaide House, London Bridge, EC4 - Wormwood Scrubs, Anglican Chapel, London W12 -

Dulwich Cemetery - Kent Terrace, NW1 - South Audley Street - Star Street Recording Studios, London - Elle, Wigmore Street - Horsham Church Tower -

Carnaby Street, Roof Garden - .Church House, Westminster -

Carlton Towers Hotel, Sloane Street, London - Selfridges, London - Dover Lighthouse - Aga Khans Palace, Newmarket - Audley End House - .

Pittville Lawn, Cheltenham - Queens Square, Cheltenham - YMCA, Cheltenham - Prestbury Campanile - Prestbury Table Top Tombs -

Empire Hotel, Bath - Kensal Green War Grave - Polish War Memorial - Friends Meeting House, Gloucester-

Opus Dei, St John’s Wood - Bristol Grammar School- Lewisham War Grave - Rococo Gardens - Coleford War Memorial - Sudeley Castle Gardens - Usk Prison-

St. Philips and St. James’s parish Church, Cheltenham - Garden House, Henley Upon Thames - Dulwich Portrait Gallery - Kingscote Parish Church.

Hawkesbury Upton Parish Church - Evesham Abbey

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