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South Portal of St. Stephen's Church: scaffolding removed

ByKoen van Velzen
20 trefoils, 20 crockets, 7 consoles and three capitals of the southern portal of the Stevenskerk

The South Portal of St. Stephen's Church has now gotten its scaffolding removed, and it's become a real sight to behold.

This morning the foreman from Van Dinther Construction from Schaijk  sent me a few photos to show me how has turned out. I hope to make. a couple of better pictures in due time, but in my enthusiasm I've already put them on this blog for now.

For this project, in commision for Slotboom Stonemasons we replaced all ornamental work and adjoning stonemasonry in new Tuff.

The old situation illustrates well how the weathered tuff lace flowers were for dismantling.

My colleagues Stide Vos and Jan Tolboom and I have been busy at the start of this year with disassembling, carving and replacing of 20 trefoils (carved by Jan Tolboom), 20 crockets (carved by Stide Vos), 7 consoles and two 'caps of consoles‘ (carved by myself), and three capitals (created by Stide and me). It was an interesting, challenging job of which we are very proud. The new Tuff blends in so well with the old work that it's hard to see what has actually been replaced, but if you'd lay the old situation alongside to it , one can tell right away.

weathering of tufa parts from South Portal Stevenskerk
trefoils, consoles and lace flowers in new Weiberner tuff
from the outside to the inside: hangen er al drie peaks (trefoils), you see a console, and a crude tire which will soon come lace flowers
During assembly: 1 new console (top center), the side crockets are still missing (bottom center), a new capital is already in place (bottom right) and three new crêtes or trefoils resting in their precarved slot (right).
The narrow pieces are hung on the inside of the arch with anchors. During curing, we can secure it with glue clamps
The narrow trefoils were suspended on the inside of the arch with anchors. During curing, we were able to clamp them with glue clamps
In the old situation the three passes were all cut off as a precaution
In the old situation, as a precaution the trefoils had all been cut off

To the first post about this project.

 

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