Gravestone & Monument Preservation Workshop
October 3-5, 2013 |
Preservation of Gravestones and Cemetery Monuments I: Basic
Instructor: Jon Appell
Date: Back by Popular Demand-Second Session: October 3-5, 2013
The primary goal of this workshop is to educate the attendees regarding all of the various aspects of gravestone, monument, and historic masonry preservation.
The majority of the workshop will be conducted at a local historical cemetery.
Classroom instruction will complement the hands-on training. The workshop will begin with a walk and talk tour, using the cemetery as an open -air museum to illustrate; basic geology, common preservation problems, previously failed repairs, and assorted other related issues. Gravestones and monuments, will then be selected to be repaired, cleaned or preserved in some manner, which represent most of the commonly encountered preservation problems, found in historic graveyards.
The following list of preservation treatments will be performed during the during of the
workshop, as well as other assorted procedures:
- We will perform the re-setting of a tablet-stone, which may be in a badly leaning, and or sunken condition.
- The repair of a broken gravestone will be conducted, by joining together the fractured stone fragments employing stone epoxy.
- The re-construction of fallen and or badly leaning multiple piece cemetery monument will be demonstrated, with a discussion on the historical use, and option to employ blind pinning.
- The use of historic pointing mortars and composite patching material will be overviewed and demonstrated, with an emphasis on the need for mortars which are compatible with the historic substrate they are being applied to.
- The process and potential need for consolidation of weak and decayed stone will be overviewed.
- The issues and problems associated with sealing stone will be discussed in detail.
- An in depth demonstration on stone cleaning will be conducted, and performed by the participants.
Cleaning is not something that should be indiscriminately performed, as some stone is too weak or fragile and may be harmed; many cleaning agents and chemicals can be detrimental to historic stone. Therefore the philosophy of cleaning will be discussed, and safe cleaning techniques will be demonstrated on gravestones which will benefit from the cleaning treatments.
A folder containing printed information will be provided to further educate and inform students, regarding the conservation treatments and materials employed throughout the workshop. Questions, interaction and group discussion is encouraged.
Participants are welcome to bring along photographs of historic masonry, sculptures,
or gravestones which they have concerns or questions regarding.
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Website:
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| Location Information |
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Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies |
203 East Seminary
Mount Carroll, IL 61053 |
| Website:
www.campbellcenter.org/pages/contact.html |
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| Contact Information |
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Jonathan Appell |
| Email:
historicstone@msn.com |
| Phone:
860-558-2785 or 815-244-1173 |
| Fax:
815-244-1619 |
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