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Windsor Castle - Windsor

Recarving and conservation of marble fireplaces

Following the fire in 1994, many of the state rooms were devastated and Nimbus was awarded the contract for the repair and conservation of the fireplaces. Particularly badly affected was the carrara marble surround for the State Dining Room.

This was dismantled and found to be beyond repair, the heat and water having combined to shatter the marble into many pieces. The decision was taken to completely replicate the fire surround. This involved setting out the complex mouldings in full scale drawings and then establishing a source of white statuary marble. The pieces were then carved and hand polished in our workshop before being taken back up to Windsor and installed.

Some sections of the twenty other fire surrounds affected had to be replaced, but most of the remainder of the work involved cleaning, repair, refixing and waxing.

Architect: Donald Insall Associates