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St Stephen's Church Memorial Wall

Build a reinforced concrete block wall, using standard 2005 Firth masonry blocks, on a 250mm deep reinforced footing on a flat site after removing an existing 400mm high tri-face block retaining wall. The wall would be 7.80 metres long. It would run alongside but approximately 1600mm away from the wall of the existing Chapel (see attached photograph). There would be five courses of blocks and they would be faced and capped with terrazzo style tiles . The blocks would need to stack bonded across the width of the wall. Once laid the blocks would need to be filled with concrete. Then the blocks on the top four courses would need to have a 100mm wide and 350mm long hole bored lengthways from the back of blocks in order to create a cavity into which tubes of cremated ashes could be inserted and later sealed off. The tiles would be cemented on after the boring had been done. (We would entertain the blocks being filled and bored off site prior to laying if doing so was more efficient and economical.) The reinforcing requirements have already been calculated by a structural engineer and his drawings can be provided.