ST THOMAS'S CHURCH, RYDE FOR NETWORK RYDE HERITAGE WORKS CONSERVATION AND INTERPRETATION

Description

HERITAGE WORKS. CONSERVATION AND INTERPRETATION This project is intended to conserve, clean (where required), preserve and protect the existing heritage assets within the grade II listed church as listed below. Further the supplier will be required to establish a heritage area and display to be open by arrangement with Network Ryde to the General Public. As part of this the supplier may consider that production of a revised history of the church would be useful. The supplier will be expected to answer question on the history of the church supporting the project manager and council team and undertake/organise/prepare a history of the church to the present day as an illustrated lecture. Lot 1: FOR HERITAGE WORKS. CONSERVATION AND INTERPREATION. Tender must include a work and method statement. 1. Package Overview 1. 39 wall plaque conservation (marble, painted timber and some brass) 2. Window Screen conservation 3. Gold commandments screen conservation 4. Coat of arms conservation 5. Thomas Player Armiger plaque conservation 6. Lower Pew cleaning and conservation Inc. wall panels 7. Upper Pew (all) cleaning and conservation 8. Conservation of loose objects and loose plaques 9. Two Sea chest cleaning and conservation for display 10. Brier conservation for display 11. Font conservation (two off) 12. Heritage interpretation area with information boards. Supplier to provide description of Proposed Heritage display area with information boards. It is anticipated that many of these objects will be cleaned and conserved in the same way concluding with different final finishing methods; 1. A dry soft brush with vacuum cleaning to remove any loose dust and debris. 2. Gentle wet clean to remove stubborn dirt. This will be carried out using a choice of either deionised water and cotton buds, or a quick evaporating alcohol applied using cotton buds. Some of the objects may require more than one wet cleaning application, especially the heavily stained marble plaques. 3. With conservation of the two wood sea chests - it is important to retain the patina, so any wet cleaning must be carried out with care and this work should perhaps be subcontracted to a specialist furniture conservator. 3. Once fully dry any consolidation can be carried out - treatment for woodworm, wood rot and in some case paint flaking should be done. It is not intended to undertake any repair and restoration i.e. replacing missing text from marble plaques. 4. The painted coat of arms and the painted section of the Thomas Player Armiger plaque will require sympathetic restoration of some sections of paint. 6. NOTE: The Ten Commandments boards will be dry brushed and vacuum cleaned ONLY. These are fragile. 7. All the pews are painted to imitate oak. They must all be dry vacuum cleaned then carefully wet cleaned using water, detergent and soft cloths. Protective clothing and accessories will be required as there are bird droppings in the gallery pews area. Woodworm and rot treatment is also required in some areas. In some places there are original paper orders of service stuck to the pew backs. These must be conserved and protected by the use of small Perspex covers set away from the paper therefore allowing air to flow through. Once the pews are dry from their wet cleaning a conservation grade wax will be applied. (Two applications may be required.) Applied using soft cloths and brushes. 2. Other Notes and Site Requirements. 2.1 All costs involved with ferry transport to be included if required. 2.2 All material and consumable costs must be included. No additional expenses will be covered. 2.3 Supplier is responsible for all elements of H&S involved with their works while on site. 2.4 Supplier personnel will be required to wear high visibility jackets, hard hats and safety equipment as appropriate while on site. 2.5 Suppliers personnel will be required to sign in on a daily basis and make their presence known to the site manager. 2.6 Note the earliest start date is May 2023 but cleaning works will not be required until the majority of building works have completed - currently November 2023. 3. Quotation to include 3.1 Relevant experience / track record in this area. 3.2 The completed due diligence form. 3.3 Any additional relevant information.