OLD METHODS, NEW SPIRE

摘要

The situation became critical in 2015. There was a clear risk that bits of crumbling brick from the spire might fall on churchgoers and other passers-by on the square in front of the church. The plaster was also peeling off the inside of the spire. The decision was taken to restore the spire and the front of Sankt Paul's Church, and funding was procured. The architects Toyberg-Frandzen and contractor and master builder Guldmann Dam|Prenor A/S, both companies with extensive experience in the restoration of listed buildings, were asked to take on the three-year job, including planning, design, construction and the production of new bricks. On 23 November 2017, the scaffolding was finally removed - and, as is the measure of a successful restoration project, hardly anybody noticed the difference. The 140-year-old Sankt Paul's Church, in the Nyboder district of central Copenhagen, was based on drawings by the architect J.E. Gnutzmann. The North Italian/Romanesque style red-brick church has a grand position, standing in a small urban oasis with gardens on all sides, at a comfortable distance from the surrounding buildings.