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RESTORATION OF ROBERT SAMUT HALL IN FLORIANA
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12/07/2001
12/07/2001
| The Restoration Unit within the Works Division of the Ministry for the | Environment recently concluded restoration works on the intricate facades of Robert Samut Hall in Floriana which is to be used as an Early Literacy Centre by the Curriculum Department of the Education Division. |
| The works carried out by Camray Contractors Ltd under | the supervision of Architects Mireille Fsadni and Norbert Gatt from the Restoration Unit of the Works Division involved manual cleaning with deonised water, the reinstatement of missing gargoyles and fleur-de-lys and the installation of a pigeon protection system. The refurbishment of the interiors is to commence in the coming weeks. |
| Robert Samut Hall was originally a Neo-Gothic | Methodist church designed by the English architect Thomas Mullet Ellis. The first stone of the church was laid on the 12th December 1881. |
| From then onwards its construction was supervised by | Mr. Poulson until the work was finally terminated by the beginning of 1883. The church was officially opened on the 18th of March 1883 and it was the first building to use the incandescent light-bulb. |
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