Project Overview
St Mary’s Lighthouse, built in 1898 and operational from 1899, was designed to guide ships safely along the hazardous North Sea coastline. Now preserved as a heritage site and visitor attraction, the lighthouse required scaffolding works to support refurbishment and repainting as part of North Tyneside Council’s restoration project.
The Solution
Starting in June 2024, Ingleford Scaffolding Ltd installed scaffolding to the lighthouse and surrounding outbuildings to enable blasting and repainting works. Preparatory works included creating site compounds on both the mainland and the island, installing protective measures for historic features, sound barriers to protect local wildlife and track matting to safeguard burial sites during material transport.
The project included the construction of an 18 lift freestanding scaffold structure around the lighthouse, complete with a cantilevered temporary roof from the 12th lift. The outbuilding scaffold was installed and shrink wrapped within days to allow other contractors to begin works while the lighthouse structure was being erected.
The Result
The lighthouse scaffold was completed within 16 days and shrink wrapped within one week, finishing nine days ahead of schedule while meeting strict environmental deadlines to avoid disruption to the seal mating season.
