Case Study
Chester Town Hall
Repairs to windows, ridge cresting and finials on a Gothic-style town hall building.
Dorothea Restorations was sub-contracted by a local roofing contractor to carry out a variety of specialised repairs to the Chester Town Hall building.
A Gothic-style building of red and grey sandstone, the town hall was originally completed in 1869 and is little changed externally.
Dorothea teams worked on various restoration projects, including the refurbishment of a variety of window styles such as sash windows, leaded casements and stained glass windows.
A major part of the works involved repairs and restoration to the ornate wrought and cast iron ridge cresting and the wrought iron finials, all of which had succumbed to corrosion.
These were labelled and removed from the roof, and taken to our Whaley Bridge workshop where our blacksmiths undertook repairs and reformed missing wrought iron sections using genuine recycled wrought iron. Damaged cast iron sections were repaired or, in the case of the ridge plates, replaced if badly corroded.
The restored ironwork was re-fitted to the roof as the main contractor had finished its repair.