St Mary's Church Wall Restoration

The proposal is to restore a wall along the boundaries of St Mary's Church site. The proposal includes remediation of the wall sections that are unstable including taking down and rebuilding on the new foundations.

In areas where the flint has fallen out of the wall, the section will be taken down and reconstructed. The wall will be reconstructed reusing flints recovered from the disassembled sections.

Severely deteriorated stone will be replaced using new flint that will be of a size and type to those in the original wall and laid in a similar size and density, ensuring it is securely embedded in the existing construction. The brick piers will be constructed to match existing in bricks to match existing. Harmful cement pointing that has been carried out over the years, will be removed and re-pointed with a slightly recessed lime mortar.

Deteriorated pointing to the stone, brick piers or coping stones will be raked out and re-pointed with a lime mortar. In locations where trees are having an influence on the wall construction.