Assessment of the sandstone portals of st. leonardo’s church using non-destructive testing methods

Authors: Carlos Chastre, Marco Ludovico Marques

ABSTRACT:

In this paper a summary of conservation interventions carried out in the past century in St. Leonardo’s Church is presented, as well as a summary of the studies and tests carried out in the last decade. Then the degradation patterns on the sandstone portals of St. Leonard’s Church are shown and finally the evolution of the alveolization occurred on the sandstone walls over the last sixty to seventy years is analysed. Visual inspection of sandstone walls is compared with a survey performed by laser scanning 3D.

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Affiliation:

Carlos Chastre1 | Marco Ludovico Marques2
1Professor Auxiliar, DEC – FCT – Univers. NOVA de Lisboa, Investigador, CERIS – ICIST – Univers. de Lisboa
2Professor Adjunto, CICC, DEG – ESTB – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal – Portugal.