Tunbridge Wells, Methodist Church

About
The church was opened on June 3, 1873, to a design by London architect Charles Bell. The gothic-style building in London Road. It falls within the Royal Tunbridge Wells Conservation Area and is on the town’s local list of heritage assets. Made of ragstone, bath stone and granite under a slate roof by local builders Willicombe and Oakley, the church has a lower ground-floor level where there is a meeting hall, once used as a school room, and ancillary rooms. The building contains a number of stained glass windows which were added in the 1930s.
Over the years the Methodist Church in Tunbridge Wells had suffered greatly from poor drainage and years of weathering. The original bath stone was defrassing and the historic Lime mortar was degrading.
Scope of Work
Williams Restoration undertook restoration of the facades at the Methodist Church. This included the repairing and cleaning of the facades at the Methodist Church. This was done using a ThermaTech modular cleaning system. A system created with the environment in mind. Energy efficiency, water consumption and its low emissions makes it one of the leading resources for a environmentally friendly company to have. Due to the nature of the historic fabric of this building and it being of various materials Williams Restoration ensured all the works were done with conservation at the forefront of the works. This method also allowed us to assess further works due to the defrassing of the bath stone surfaces. Once these were identified we carried out various stone repairs using a Lime based, pre-mixed bath stone repair mix. Williams then completed various areas of repointing works using a historically matched, Lime based mortar. This was finished to match the original.
Project location: Tunbridge Wells
Client: Oakley Construction
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