Day 168 - Repairing Pews

Week 35 - Day 168
Repairs to the book rests on one set of pews.

Day 167 - Repairing Pews

Week 35 - Day 167
Whilst work still continues on plastering, pointing and painting windows more work starts to repair the pews.

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 165 - Edging Beading to Protect Corners

Week 34   Day 165
Beads to protect the corners of the pillars they strengthen the edges when the plaster is applied to the brick work. These pillars in the cellar now support the floor above since the previous owner removed all the cross walls that had formed the cellar dwelling rooms.

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 163 - Preparations to Preserve Original Wall Painting

Week 34 - Day 163
The section of original lime plaster with its painted decoration is prepared to meet the new lime plaster. This section of plaster has been preserved in the NE corner of the gallery. The decorative frieze would have been located just below the eaves and the original flat ceiling and might have been added to the chapel as part of a series of 'beautifying' events the first of which is recorded in 1825. It would have been carried around the whole building and was still there in 1895 because a section can be seen in the photo showing the first Harvest Festival, which also shows the painted decorations on the facade pipes of the organ were also still visible.

Day 162 - FOGS Visit Organ Restoration

Week 34 - Day 162
Friends of George Street made a visit to David Wood, organ builders today to take a look at the completed organ restoration. Well, at least the musical side of the restoration. The casework still needs decisions to be made about whether it will be stained or painted, and decisions also need to be taken about how the facade pipes will be re-painted and decorated to reconstruct the original decorative scheme.

David Wood, organ builder, Huddersfield
 describes one of the metal pipes to Friends of George Street.

YOUTUBE Video of restoration and tuning work