Case Study
Holy Name Church, Manchester
Repairs to wrought iron cresting on the roof of
one of Manchester’s
best-known churches.
Holy Name Church in Manchester was built
for the Jesuit Order from designs by their favourite architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom (inventor of the Hansom Cab), and opened in 1871.
Dorothea Restorations was appointed to carry out repairs to the original wrought iron cresting on the roof ridge - the majority of the detail having been lost due to corrosion.
The surviving sections were removed from site to our Whaley Bridge workshop, where our blacksmiths set about the restoration of the original cresting design using genuine recycled wrought iron.