Further investigations into the drainage at All Saints, Newton were carried out last week. Unfortunately there are no records of the location of the drains and the swan-neck bends on the gullies prevented the use of GPS to plot the layout. Therefore we used the old-fashioned method of digging down to follow the path of the drains. Another task as part of the investigations was the excavation of trial holes in order to carry out percolation tests. These allowed us to determine the suitability of particular areas for the installation of new soakaways. Andrew Osguthorpe did all the hard work and also did a wonderful job of returning to the churchyard to how it looked before he started. Jamie Holden of Ferrey and Mennim architects was onsite to oversee what was found and Katie Keefe of York Osteoarchaeology carried out a watching brief during the excavations.
Thanks as ever go the the Heritage Lottery Fund for their support of our Development Phase.
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Our first batch of investigations at All Saints Church, Newton has now taken place and we are awaiting the results. So far we have had a survey of the drains carried out by JetAire, a survey of the stained glass windows by Joe Burton of J W Burton Stained Glass Ltd and an inspection of the condition of the internal timbers and stonework by Andrew Boyce and Jamie Holden, our architects from Ferrey and Mennim. Plans to assess the condition of the Tower stonework were shelved after the wind picked up. We will hope for better weather when the final roof investigations occur at the end of this month. Access for the high level investigations was facilitated by Paul Middlemiss of PWM Platforms using the machine pictured above. This allowed the experts to closely inspect the condition of various parts of the church which until now had only been inspected using binoculars or a camera zoom.
Our thanks go to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) without whom these investigations would never have been possible: |
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