Internal Lime Plastering

THE CHAPEL AT ST THOMAS HOSPITAL

St Thomas Hospital is a grade 2 listed building and is part of the Guys & St Thomas NHS foundation trust together with Guys and Kings College Hospital.

Overview

London
£25k

BEFORE

  • Named after Sir Thomas Beckett in 1173
  • The hospital was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1548 & reopened in 1552 by Edward VI
  • Premises were moved from Southwark to its current location of Lambeth in 1862 and construction was completed in 1871
  • The foundation stone was laid by Queen Victoria in 1868
  • Florence Nightingale set up her nursing school in 1859 at St Thomas’s
  • In 1818 the first blood transfusion using human blood was carried out at St Thomas’s

DURING

J E Putney & Sons were awarded the contract to carry out the restoration of the lime plastering works to the central chapel (1 of the oldest parts of the hospital). A substantial area of damaged masonry walls were repaired using 3 coat haired lime plaster.

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