St Martin-in-the-Field, Blenheim Palace, The National Gallery

St Martin-in-the-Field

Project Overview

St. Martin-in-the-Field is a landmark. Its fine architecture and prominent location place it at the heart of the nation. Its work has valued historic tradition, but St. Martin’s has always been innovative in response to changing needs.

In January 2006 St. Martin’s embarked on a £36 million building project to restore and transform the church and surrounding buildings by creating a new sequence of beautiful, practical and inspirational spaces.

The works included cleaning, restoration, traditional coatings and gilding.

Blenheim Palace

Project Overview

Campbells won the contract for the restoration of North Portico ceiling which sits above the principle entrance to Blenheim Palace.

Due to years of water ingress the substrate and decorative finishes of the portico ceiling had been affected greatly.

The agreed scheme was to restore where possible, or replace as necessary the existing finishes which included Eye murals that were originally painted by Colin Gill in the1930’s.

This involved replacing gold leaf to cornices, mixing of colours and paints where necessary to match the existing and re-painting murals.

The National Gallery

Project Overview

During the late 1990’s a section of ornate plaster fell from the Main entrance ceiling of The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London. Luckily no-one was injured but a piece of the original decorative scheme created by John Crace, the well-known Victorian Artist was revealed.

Following exhaustive research to uncover the full scheme, Campbell Smith were engaged to carry out the full re-creation of the scheme, including extensive ornate stencil and gilding works. This was a great success for which Campbell Smith won the coveted Rose Bowl award from the Painting and Decorating Federation.