Design Consultancy Services:

Britannia has a wealth of experience in designing, manufacturing and installing all types of traditional architectural metalwork. Hence the Company is able to act either in the normal capacity of a manufacturer and contractor or as a specialist consultant to architects, surveyors and other construction professionals advising on all aspects of architectural metalwork.

This consultancy service can include in addition to general advice on metalworking techniques and detailing, advice on restoration of metalwork, site surveying and recording, detailed design and even obtaining Planning and Listed Building Consents.

Pattern Making Services:

Britannia offer a full pattern making service including making replica castings from originals. In most cases this will involve removing an original from the site and taking impressions directly from it. Such replica castings are not unduly expensive and do not require specialist pattern‑making skills but in cases where the existing casting to be copied is not available (i.e. removed long ago) and one has to rely on historical evidence, creating the replica pattern requires very special skills.

The illustrations below show the creation some years ago of replica castings for Peckham Rye Station, the originals of which were removed during the War. In this case no clear drawings or photos of the originals could be found and all the patternmaker had to rely on was gleaned from the background of old photos.

The Pattern Making & Casting Process
1. Working drawings	2. Clay impressions	3. Resin pattern
4. Finished pattern	5. Pouring the casting	6. The finished elevation

Specialised Castings:

Using the skills referred to above the Company can make specialised castings to the individual design of architects or designers. We can also help designers develop prototypes.