In February 2013 I was part of a team preparing
Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford for the Maundy Thursday visit by the Queen, broadcast worldwide by the BBC. The project, ran by
Cliveden Conservation, composed of repairs to the stone, cleaning and lime washing.
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| The marble floor after conservation. |
A major aspect of the work was the cleaning, waxing and polishing of the Victorian marble floor. This included the careful cleaning of the monument
to Edward Bouverie Pusey (bottom left of above photo) which I carried out towards the end of the project.
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| Monuments during cleaning from a mobile scaffold tower. |
Work around the entrance of the cathedral included vacuum cleaning the ornate wooden ceiling, monument cleaning and cleaning and lime washing two large walls either side of the west door. Much of this work was carried out by myself at height using a movable aluminium scaffold.
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| One of the two west walls following conservation. |
Many of the fine Norman columns were also cleaned where grease and dirt had built up over many years. The Church remained open throughout the project, and is extremely popular with tourists who on the whole seemed to really enjoy observing conservation up close.
Next Friday the archive post will be about Tewkesbury Abbey.
