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Linford Joinery Creates Oak Screens for Repton church
Leading architectural joinery specialist Linford Joinery has just completed and installed new oak panel screens at St Wystans Church, Repton, in Derbyshire.
The panelled screens have been created to cordon off an area within the chapel forming a kitchen, toilets and servery.
Each of the large, three metre-high panels is made of quarter-figured, solid English Oak. Every one was individually constructed using traditional methods in the Linford Joinery workshop by a team of skilled carpenters and joiners. Decoration on the panels includes cusp-arch detailing at the head and stopped-bevel edges which are a common feature of woodwork in English churches.
The team were working as sub-contractors to the principal contractor, Linford-Bridgeman, for whom they initially produced full setting-out drawings. This allowed the internal studwork to be constructed while the panels were being made, so that as soon as they were finished, they could be installed.
The chapel’s original panels, which these replaced, were removed prior to the start of the construction process and one, believed to be medieval in origin, is being reviewed by English Heritage and may go on permanent display within the chapel itself.
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