Spires, spheres, ball finials, cupola tops and the one-off detail pieces you cannot order from a catalogue. Formed, bossed and lead-welded on the bench or on the roof, to match what was there or to a drawing.
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Where a finial has been lost or damaged, the replacement is worked from photographs, the surviving fixing and whatever remains of the profile rather than from a nearest-fit stock shape.
Ball finials, spire tops and cupola caps built up in segments, welded and dressed until the seam disappears into the curve.
Hopper heads, decorative fronts and dated panels formed in lead where the building calls for something better than a plastic box.
Stainless or bronze fixings, non-ferrous throughout, and the detail designed so water cannot sit in it. Ornament that traps water is ornament that fails.
Smaller pieces are made up on the bench and taken up complete. Bigger work is formed in place where lifting a finished piece would risk distorting it.
On listed and church buildings the profile, the code and the fixing method all matter to whoever is signing the work off, and they get specified with that in mind.
Usually, yes. Old photographs, the remaining stub or base, and a look at a matching one on a neighbouring building are normally enough to work the profile out. Bring whatever you have and Paul will tell you what is possible.
Through a non-ferrous fixing into sound timber or masonry, with the head weathered over so water cannot track down the fixing. Most finials that come off do so because the timber core behind them rotted, so that gets replaced at the same time.
Yes. Church leadwork, spire caps, tower parapets and their gutters are regular work, and Paul is used to the access and the approvals that come with a listed building.
Yes. Architects and homeowners both come with drawings for one-off pieces. Send the drawing or a sketch and Paul will come back on whether it can be formed in lead and what it would cost.
It depends entirely on the size and the detail. A ball finial is days rather than weeks. A large spire cap or a run of matched ornament is a longer job and gets its own programme, which you get in writing before anything starts.
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