From graves and medieval drawings to climate-controlled exhibition space and strict deadlines, Exeter Cathedral presented SSH Conservation site manager John Mullins MCIOB with plenty of challenges.
The design of the wall meant the stonework progressed quickly. Five new buttresses were formed in stonework around new reinforced concrete columns. The new cloister wall consists of 70 tonnes of Doulting stone, with 20 tonnes of Marnhull stone for the window and door surrounds and tracery, along with 45 tonnes of limecrete wall core, and 8 tonnes of Portland stone for the parapet wall copings, plus various stainless-steel ties, reinforcements and wind posts.
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