St John's Green Historic Building Recording

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Place Services undertook a historic building recording of the northern boundary wall at St John’s Green School prior to a programme of repair and stabilisation.

The recording was undertaken to inform on the phasing, make-up and construction date of the boundary wall, which was unexpectedly exposed as historic in origin during a recent programme of foliage removal. The recording created an archive record of the wall prior to repair and stabilisation works, which could be submitted with a forthcoming planning application.

The wall was found to contain five different phases, ranging from medieval to late nineteenth century. An extensive amount of Roman building material was within the structure’s make-up, salvaged and re-used in the medieval period from the nearby Roman town and circus.

Place Services supplemented the recording by commissioning a programme of archaeological test-pitting, which allowed the foundations of the wall to be examined. This informed both the recording and the upcoming stabilisation works.