Day 36 - Gutters

Week 8 - Day 36
Today a template was offered up alongside the surviving stone gutter on the rear elevation facing Jackson Pit. On the front elevation, facing George Street the original stone gutter has been removed in the past. To extend the re-roofed slates an extension to the rafters has been nailed on to each one to carry the slates to an iron gutter carried on a timber boxed in sofit.

A timber template between two of the original stone gutters
on rear elevation of George Street Chapel.

The profile of the stone gutter changes along its length. with a downspout only at one end more water drains into the gutter as it is caught by the slate roof. This profile is insufficient to carry all the water and  used to spill water onto the brick wall. So, the new gutter is to be made that can hold more water.

Virtually no gully cut into the gutter at the start of it run.

About the mid-point of the stone gutter.
See how it is cut around one of the roof trusses.

The deep profile at the end of the gutter.
The gutter had a lead sheet covering to carry the rain water - see next image.

The lead lining to the stone gutter on the rear elevation of George Street Chapel.

The next two images show how the front elevation has been changed to hang a more modern gutter from a wooded soffit.

The original rafters have been extended with new timbers to carry new slates
to a modern gutter on the George Street elevation of the chapel.
The original stone gutter would have sat at the end of the rafters.
Viewed from the north.

The new bricks show where the original stone gutter might have spilled water
to a drainpipe.
The new timbers extending the rafters can be seen.
Viewed from the south.