As part of the Bute Park Restoration Project, the Animal Wall that borders Castle Street is currently being restored. The work involves repairing stone work, cleaning graffiti, re-pointing mortar and repairing the damage to the various animals. Cleaning trials were undertaken on the wall before carrying out the project (below).
It is important that the repairs match the existing walls and great care has been taken to ensure that this is the case. Below is a page from the Schedule of Repairs document that Davies Sutton Architects produced to itemise out the works.
The wall was split into sections within the document to enable the work to be managed. This one shows the Anteater that has lost it's nose and it will now be repaired. To help with this an appeal was made to find old photographs of the Animal Wall with the Anteater's nose still in place.
