Spalding War Memorial, Ayscoughfee Hall Gardens, Lincolnshire

Skillingtons have completed the specialist conservation of a Sir Edwin Lutyens designed First World War memorial in Spalding in time for Remembrance Day. Having suffered from pooling water, damp issues and deteriorating stonework, Skillingtons were engaged to carry out a five-month programme of repair and careful restoration to this structure, originally completed in 1922.

Spalding’s Grade I Listed war memorial in Lincolnshire, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

The work involved addressing issues to the stonework, roof tiles, ceiling, flooring, as well as recutting and repainting the lettering, and regilding the crowns atop the carved stone flags. A lot of effort went into matching materials to those used originally, and to ensuring the structural as well as aesthetic integrity of the monument.

Conservation of the lettering on Spalding War Memorial.

The project was funded by the memorial’s custodian, South Holland District Council.