Day 166 - Plastering More Walls Inside - Pointing Outside

Week 35 - Day 166
Continuing to lime plaster the interior walls and to finish off pointing the outside walls.

Lime plastering internal wall on the George Street Chapel side of the chapel.

Plastering the underside of the gallery.

Finishing off pointing around the newly inserted windows.

Day 164 - New Plaster - Old Plaster with Decoration

Week 34 - Day 164
The new plaster was applied today to meet the old plaster that still has the stencil decoration found during the stripping out earlier in the works programme.

New lime plaster applied up to the surviving original plaster
with its surviving wall painting decoration
at George Street Chapel, Oldham.

New lime plaster applied up to the surviving original plaster
with its surviving wall painting decoration in the NE corner of the gallery
floor of George Street Chapel, Oldham.

First coat of lime plaster being applied to the internal wall of
George Street Chapel, Oldham on the west, Jackson Pit side of the Chapel.

Day 161 - More Plastering

Week 34 -Day 161
Lime plastering continues on walls and laths.

Lime plaster being applied to the underside of laths to form the ceiling above
side pews, underneath the gallery on the Jackson Pit side, west side, of the Chapel.
The former Vestry can be seen in its stripped state at the far end. 

The ceiling above the side pews, under the gallery has been re-lathed and is now being lime plastered.

The inner wall on the Jackson Pit side includes a corbeled section of flue for the carrying of fumes and smoke from the central fireplace in the cellar. This flue was inserted from the inside of the building by cutting into the outside wall and creating a flue where none had previously existed. A chimney was then created through the roof, but inside the line of the stone gutter. See earlier photo of this feature from the roof side - 

Day 158 - Plastering Walls in the Chapel

Week 33 - Day 158
Plastering continues in the chapel floor. Here starting underneath the gallery on the George Street Chapel side of the building.

Day 157 - Plastering Walls above the gallery

Week 33 - Day 157
Lime plaster, first coast, applied to walls above the gallery level today.
Top coat applied within the vestry. Note the construction of the dumb waiter which will carry food and plates to the gallery.
The wall rising up from the cellar where the new staircase has been inserted is being lined with plaster board.

Day 133 - Another Layer of Plaster

Week 23 - Day 133
The lime plaster needs to be built up in layers and allowed to dry between layers. So everything depends on the weather for timing.

The second layer of lime plaster in the lowered part of the ceiling.
This is over the pipe organ at the south end of the chapel.