St Marys, Shipton Scollars
This small Medieval church dates back to the 13th Century and is now vested with the Churches Conservation Trust after becoming redundant in 2005.
The Trust’s objective is to maintain the buildings much as they would have been when in regular use and any repairs are undertaken following good conservation principles of minimum intervention and maximum retention.
Midland Conservation was employed to repair elements of the fabric that were contributing to significant damp issues within the building.
Works included erecting a temporary scaffold roof system over the chapel to facilitate the recovering of the Nave and Chancel roofs. These were carefully stripped of Cotswold Stone slates and decayed roofing laths to enable sensitive repairs to oak truss sections. The roof was recovered using a breathable membrane, new laths and counter battening and a mixture of new and existing Cotswold slate.
Between the trusses internally we applied Ty-Mawr wood wool boards to carry an 8mm coat of lime plaster. The wood wool boards proved an excellent choice of product to reduce the thermal bridging between trusses and also carry the lime plaster coat which was later lime washed.
Careful repairs were carried out internally to oak wall panelling and choir stalls, all of which had suffered as a result of long term damp penetration.
The works were successfully completed and handed back to the Trust in 2009.