JPConservation

JPConservation Stonemason’s and Stone Conservators of Historic Buildings and Monuments.

17/06/2026

….Sometimes you just gotta dive in head first!

We’re at St-Boltoph-without-Aldgate. - Situated just outside the very East of the old London city wall. (‘without’ meaning Outside or Beyond)

Interestingly, St Boltoph without Aldgate houses the oldest surviving church organ (collection of working original pipes) in the country. Dating to 1704.

Also interestingly, the holes in the spire are just big enough to climb through! 😆

11/06/2026

Here’s Sir John Horsey being lowered back onto his relocated monument within Sherborne Abbey.

Sir John Horsey was a Knight of Henry VIII, and during the Dissolution of the Monastries, in 1539, through some strategic bribes to the likes of Cromwell! …managed to obtain Sherborne Abbey and surrounding buildings from the Crown for £1242
He subsequently sold the Abbey to the townspeople and the Vicar.

JPConservation are carefully dismantling and relocating the Horsey monument to a more prominent position in the North Choir Aisle.



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10/06/2026

Who else is enjoying this recent spell of changeable weather?!

We’re trying to continue works at St Mary’s Church in Bletchley this week!

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For the last few weeks, we’ve been working for Oxford University at The Bodleian Library. One of the buildings is the fa...
05/06/2026

For the last few weeks, we’ve been working for Oxford University at The Bodleian Library.

One of the buildings is the fascinating Tower of Five Orders, which is named as such due to the ascending orders of classical architectural ornamentation. Starting with Tuscan to Doric, then at the bottom of the photo, Ionic to Corinthian and then the top section, Composite.


Stafford Baptist Church.Full spire and tower survey taking place today at the Stafford Baptist Church.Quite an unusual p...
19/05/2026

Stafford Baptist Church.

Full spire and tower survey taking place today at the Stafford Baptist Church.

Quite an unusual pierced spire, but makes for great climbing!

18/05/2026

Sometimes, we have to undo things to put them right.
This weathervane has become dangerously loose over winter where its connection has corroded and crumbled, and due to continued rocking back and forth, has also cracked the finial stone in two.

We will take all 100kgs of solid wrought iron, chilmark stone and copper cockeral down to the ground, without scaffolding, and fabricate a new stainless connection and boss to the tie rod system. Recarve the finial stone and reinstate all elements, finished with a freshly gilded cockerel.

Keep your eyes peeled for more on this one. 👀

Our exciting monument relocation project at Sherborne Abbey is well underway. The Horsey monument is a 16th century monu...
15/05/2026

Our exciting monument relocation project at Sherborne Abbey is well underway.

The Horsey monument is a 16th century monument to Sir John Horsey II (d. 1546) and his son Sir John Horsey III (d. 1564)

We will be carefully dismantling and rebuilding the Horsey monument in its new location within the Abbey.

04/05/2026

.c.gilding is currently Gilding the clock hands for Great and Little Comberton Churches for

The cockeral is waiting its turn and is for a different project for

17/04/2026

Making dangerous, grimy, slippery stone paths, safe again…

…and looking great at the same time. 👌🏽

16/04/2026

At JP Conservation, we get to work on and help conserve a real variety of different structures. Today, some of the team are at Kelston Lock for the Canal & River Trust. Kelston Lock is 299 years old, and was built by engineer John H**e of Newbury, with the first cargo passing through in December 1727. The lock has been drained so that the Trust can replace the lock gates, also allowing JP Conservation in to do remedial works to the masonry.

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