This course will provide you with the basic skills and knowledge so that you can repair and care for leaded glass work.The course is suitable for beginners who wish to get hands on with leaded glass and for intermediate craftspeople, who wish to learn more about tools, techniques and care of historic and contemporary glass work.
This course will teach you how to use lime in buildings. You will learn how to identify the type of mix required, you will use various components to prepare specific mixes. You will learn how to grout and point walls using traditional methods and materials and how to build solid stone walls and solid brick walls using lime mortars.
This course is for those who would like to make their own garden or field gates and or stiles for use in various environments. You will learn how to set out a rod so that you can accurately mark up timbers. Using green timber you will learn how to make traditional joints. The techniques you will learn have been in use for centuries and remain as useful today. The manufacturing principles used form the basis of much of our general agricultural joinery production of today.
This course is for those who wish to get to grips with some bigger timbers. We use English softwood or hardwoods to manufacture a full sized porch frame.You will build a frame using medieval joints dating back to the 12th Century, which are still as useful and stable today as they were back then. You will learn the simple geometry related to a pitched roof structure and actually cut and assemble a frame using traditional joints all round.
This award offers the opportunity to learn about our built heritage.
It covers architectural styles, types of construction, materials and crafts utilised in our historic buildings. We also look at legislation supporting the preservation and conservation of our built heritage.
The course will give you an understanding of how to look after historic buildings.
the programme contains a series of lectures with interactive work, along with some out of centre research both supported and self managed.
A total of 80 hours will be required to fulfil the programme, most of which will be delivered in our centre at Thorp perrow.
The award is a Nationally recognised qualification at level 2 which will offer credits under QCF to support further progression.
This course is for people who want to understand their older houses. You will be able to recognise structural features and materials and create maintenance and repair interventions which will be suitable for the structure.
In this course you will learn how to cut and face up and cut moulding's in stone using hand tools, identify stone and gauge its quality and faults. You will have the opportunity to choose a stone dressing or carving project over the weekend.