Historic plaster ceilings. Part 2: Survey, assessment and methods of conservation

The first book to provide a complete guide to the conservation and maintenance of traditional architectural ironwork.

Scott Brookes provides an introduction to historic plasterwork, outlining the historical development of the most common forms of traditional ceiling construction and summarising typical causes of deterioration and failure.

The 2018 James Sutherland History Lecture discusses architectural engineering in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period.