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Church Roof Repair – St. Philip’s & St. James’ Church, Ratby, Leicestershire

A Grade II* listed church, the church dates from the 14th Century and has a massive tower the top of which is in the perpendicular style. There are five bays with circular piers, the south doorway has a band of big four petalled fleuron’s all up the arch and the south aisle east window has a flowing tracery culminating in a circle with a wheel of three mouchettes. In 1999, the Quinquennial inspection had revealed a serious out break of dry rot in the roof timbers above the arcade to the extent that the church had to be closed.

The necessary repairs to the timber work would entail cutting away all infected and replacing all timbers below the first purlins. A structural scaffold would be required to support the retained structure during the remedial works. A temporary roof had to be erected between the ridges of the nave and south aisle to allow the internal valley roofs to be stripped and opened up to facilitate the timber replacements.

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