Category: Conservation Work

Hay Castle Gates Restored

                                                                  HM King Charles (then as Prince of Wales )  with John Best (for JN & Co) At the Official Opening of the Restored Castle in July 2022   Last year’s official...   Read More

Conservation Work to the Rood and Parclose Screens at St Stephen’s Church, Old Radnor

      This very interesting Perpendicular Grade1 Listed church has a commanding location above the Vale of Radnor and although a quiet parish church today, before the Reformation it was of collegiate status and contained several chapels.       St...   Read More

Restoring Camden’s Archangel

       This large and heroic wooden effigy of St Michael slaying the dragon has stood against a Nave column on its pedestal facing the West door of St Michael's Camden since the dark days during the outbreak of War. The September 1939 parish...   Read More

Oak Lintel Conservation

The magnificent cruciform stone tithe barn on which the following exravagant measures were lavished is largely C15th with a stone roof held by dramatic raised crucks. The lintel in question supports a stone gable above a pair of substantial twelve foot high doors opening...   Read More

The High Table for Tretower Court

Tretower Court is a unique building that nestles in the hills above Brecon. It was home to the influential Picard and Vaughan families for the first seven hundred years of its life. In the 18th century its status began to decline (as was true of a number of fine Welsh houses)...   Read More

The Great West Doors of Chester Cathedral

Architect – Tony Barton for Donald Insall Associates Contractors - John Nethercott & Co. A church was founded in Chester almost two thousand years ago. Primarily because of the soft ‘new red’ sandstone from which the present building (which dates back to...   Read More