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The Minerva Workshop

Building on 15 years of conservation experience, Minerva Stone Conservation has responded to increasing demand for its skills and created a new facility for workshop based conservation and repair to monuments and sculpture, to compliment our other in situ based works. The workshop is based in Frome, Somerset and has excellent facilities, with large floor space, cranage, and a range of analytical equipment. This means we are able to work on a wide variety of pieces, from small decorative sculptures to large public monuments. We undertake and advise on projects throughout the UK and further afield.

Please follow this link to see how one of our regular clients views our work. http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/content.php?nID=23

The workshop is managed by 2 of Minervas' senior staff, Christina Kay and Neil Pickering, their resume's are outlined below.

 

CHRISTINA KAYE.
Christina Kaye has twenty-five years’ experience in building, monument and sculpture conservation beginning in 1981 with a three-year apprenticeship on Wells Cathedral West Front under Professor Baker.
She has subsequently worked on a wide variety of buildings and artefacts, such as:

She is experienced in a wide range of conservation techniques including the many uses of lime; casein repairs; marble, sandstone and polychrome cleaning, repair and consolidation; and decorative lime plaster cleaning, repair and consolidation. Christina sees clear, detailed reports of works completed as an essential part of the conservation process. On a more personal note, she says that, “ I care for our architectural heritage and strongly believe in quality, integrity and honesty in all that I do as conservator both for my generation and the generations to follow”.

 

NELL PICKERING.
Nell Pickering has had 15 years experience working in conservation, beginning with a four year apprenticeship with St Cuthbert Conservation which started in 1992. Having worked as a community artist prior to this she already had a keen eye for form, line and colour, a practical understanding of many different materials and an ability to manage many different age groups. She joined Minerva Conservation in 2004 and has overseen conservation works at St Stephens Church tower and the lime conservation project at Newton Park (Bath Spa University), among others. Recent work includes: