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Greater Manchester Fire Museum
Whitechapel Art Plaster Co Ltd recently completed their package of traditional solid lime, fibrous and ornamental plasterwork to the former Rochdale Fire Service station at Maclure Road in Rochdale. The building is due to welcome visitors this year as the ‘Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum’. The mission statement of the new museum is to preserve and […]
White Chapel Art Plaster – Problem Solving & Murrays’ Mills
In 2018, Whitechapel Art Plaster Co Ltd were involved in the refurbishment of the Coupland Building in Manchester working as a sub-contractor for Graham Construction, who’s client was Manchester University. Work on the building included traditional solid plastering, heritage lime plastering, ornamental plastering to arches, plaster cornice, barrel ceilings, contemporary modern wet pre-mixes, metal frame […]
Lime Plaster and Ornamental Restoration Works at Tuebrook Library
Shortly before the national lock down, Whitechapel Art Plaster, in conjunction with Cavalier studios in Stockport, took video footage of the early stages of the renewal; including fibrous plaster, ribbed and corbelled entrance hall, egg and dart cornice, ribbed beam casings, panels, ceiling rose’s, together with traditionally solid plastered walls. Footage was also taken of […]
Theatre Ceiling Restoration
The below image shows Whitechapel craftsmen working to restore a theatre ceiling in Westminster central London as part of a sympathetic conversion for change of use. Whitechapel also carried out a full survey to the building, to establish the condition of the grounds and fixings that keep the fibrous sections of the ceiling in place. White […]
Port Sunlight – Remediation of Lath & Lime Plaster
Whitechapel Art Plaster’s team of solid lime plasterers were recently involved in the restoration team at Port Sunlight. Port Sunlight is a model village, located at Wirral, Merseyside but within the historic boundary of Cheshire. Back in 2017, a gas explosion caused several buildings in the model village to collapse. Whitechapel Art Plaster carried out the remediation works of the original lath […]
Large Unique Ceiling Centres
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a plastered room in possession of a high ceiling must be in need of a rose. An appropriate ceiling centre in place within a period room can bring the space to life with its detail, shadows and ornament. Above, Ceiling Centre, modelled, moulded and cast by Whitechapel Art […]
Plaster Ceiling Roses and Centres
A plaster ceiling centre or rose can be made up of one cast, or can be formed from a number of different components with varying degrees of complexity. The ceiling rose can be fixed in the centre of the ceiling, or can be centred from a focal point in the room to which it is […]
Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery
The long awaited reopening of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery was on Saturday 14th February and did not disappoint. Whitechapel Art Plaster worked closely with ISG, the main management contractor on site and also the City of Manchester’s heritage department. Whitechapel Art Plaster created the hand crafted, run in situ, plaster cornice shown in the image […]
Decorative Plasterwork and Mouldings
Decorative plasterwork and mouldings from Whitechapel Art Plaster. We are a company of fibrous plasterers based on the Cheshire border but only 7 miles from Manchester’s business and city centre. With a reputation for service and quality built from the work of two decades we are now looking to grow and develop the business whilst […]
Lime Plastering
Historically plastering in Britain was carried out using lime based plasters. Lime was used as a binder to be mixed with various types of graded sand used as an aggregate to suit the backgrounds to which they were to be applied, achieving the required finish. When plastering internal walls or buildings, especially where the base […]
What are Lime Mortars and Lime Plasters?
Lime comes from limestone, it is quarried, crushed and heated in lime kilns to drive off carbon dioxide. This process converts the limestone in a highly alkaline (caustic) material called quick lime. When quick lime is slaked with water a lime putty is formed. High calcium lime putty will keep indefinitely in a sealed container […]
Matching Skirting Boards and other Timber Mouldings
In traditional high class work in buildings the walls of rooms are usually finished with a plaster cornice at the ceiling / wall junction and a timber skirting board at the floor to wall junction. As a specialist plastering contractor White Chapel Art Plaster are often called in to match the plaster cornice in rooms […]
