Restoration- Major Improvements Preserve Yorkshire Landmarks for future Generations
Two historically important buildings in Yorkshire are currently undergoing thousands of pounds worth of preservation work to protect them from future damage.
Stone Technical Services, based in Darlington, County Durham, is carrying out a variety of repair work at York Theatre Royal and at the St Mary and St Joseph RC Church in Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
York Theatre Royal dates back to the 1700s and was built on the site of the medieval St Leonard’s Hospital in St Leonard’s place in the city centre. Due to the age of the building a range of preservation and repair work is being carried out including the installation of lightning protection to shield it from potential environmental damage and the refabrication of the theatre’s decorative cross.
As well as these repairs, Stone is also providing specialist scaffolding support to protect the delicate nature of the building. Stone is working alongside Malton-based contractors Scothern Construction on the project at the Theatre Royal.
Over in Pocklington, Stone is upgrading the lightning protection at the St Mary and St Joseph RC Church which is currently undergoing improvement work costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. The church was originally opened in 1863 and the St Mary and St Joseph Catholic Church Development Fund is working to raise money for the improvements.
Stone Technical Services is a specialist high-level maintenance company providing lightning conductor installation and steeplejack services as well as restoration and masonry refurbishment projects on churches, museums, clock towers, castles, spires and historic buildings all over the UK.
The company works all over the UK on a variety of high profile buildings such as St Paul’s Cathedral and Selfridges in London and for organisations such as English Heritage and the National Trust as well as for well known industrial clients such as INEOS Plant Utilities and Teesside Power Station.
Managing director, Dave Stone said: “It’s vital that historically significant buildings are restored and repaired to the highest specification so that they can be enjoyed for many years to come. The age of both the Theatre Royal and the church in Pocklington means that they require sympathetic restoration work which is carried out sensitively and with as little disruption as possible.”
