Some of the challenges facing the mausoleum are to do with water.
Water has been getting in from the roofs that have been failing,
from the downpipes and the rainwater goods that have been failing
but more importantly from the bottom
where we've got this water just saturating in through the walls.
where we've got this water just saturating in through the walls.
What happens inside is that the walls will just continually crumble
and we'll just lose the most significant part of this:
the celebration of Albert and Victoria.
This is a Grade I listed building
and its in peril because its sat in the wrong part of the site
but there are ways that we can alleviate that.
What we're going to do to save and restore this
is create a dry moat around the outside
which prevents the water from attacking through the walls
into the main mausoleum.
