Tamworth Scaffolding has a long-standing reputation for excellence in providing access for renovation work on historic houses and monuments.

The company understands that every project is unique and provides solutions that are sympathetic to the preservation of historic buildings.

There is often the requirement that scaffold is freestanding with no contact points to the historic building.

Perhaps there is no better example of this than the Tamworth Scaffolding project at Newstead Abbey in Nottingham.

Newstead Abbey may be known as a magnificent country house with its links to Lord Byron, but it is the facade of Nottinghamshire's most historic abbey that gives the house its name.

The fact that Newstead Abbey's West Front is the only part of the priory church - built in 1170 - still standing is thought to be a minor miracle: Keeping the West Front would have been seen as highly provocative at the time of The Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.

750 years after it was built, renovation work required the pinnacles at the top of the façade to be removed – and that required another minor miracle – this time in the form of scaffolding erected by Tamworth Scaffolding.

The nature of the ruin – a tall, single width stone wall meant that the scaffolding had to be totally free standing with no contact points whatsoever, and to feature lifting beams to enable the pinnacles to be safely removed.