Issue 35 autumn 2022 - Flipbook - Page 28
Murdoch Sponsors Award Finalist: Sussex Leadcraft
Ltd with Coleridge Boarding House (below)
Christ's Hospital is a public school (English independent
boarding school for pupils aged 11–18) with a Royal
Charter located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex.
The school was founded in 1552. Coleridge Boarding
House was named after the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Extensive leadwork at an exceptionally high standard in
Code 5/6 milled lead to 8.no to the dormer top flat roofs.
The lead was supplied by ECOBAT.
Murdoch Sponsors Award Winner: Northwest Lead
Ltd with Manchester Royal Infirmary (below)
The split level cornice used code 6 lead and was installed
in a staggered welt pattern with copper clips to the leading
edge and to the welts. The higher level of the cornice was
to have the heavy section cast iron guttering laid upon it
which they identified as being a potential cause of thermal
restriction so they came up with a solution that involved
welding cast lead blocks to the cornice which were cut to
height to accommodate the gutter levels and were only
positioned within the central third of each panel so that
the gutter weight wasn’t imposing on the parts of the
cornice lead which needed to expand/contract. The welts
were positioned in such a way that the cast lead support
blocks could sit at the correct locations to sufficiently
support the cast iron gutters whilst maintaining correct
sizing and fixing of the cornice panels.
The Cupola cladding used Code 6 for all the works, the
original decorative timber scrolls were badly eroded so it
was decided that the new scrolls would have a lead
covering to protect the skyward faces and were fixed at
the head within a rebate and covered with a decorative
timber panel to protect the top edge and fixings.
A new timber finial post and ball was constructed and
covered with lead separately so as to be fed over a stainless
rod for stability which in turn required intermediate
sleeves to be welded to the joint areas around the rod
to maintain the weathering between the different
components.
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