Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Learn how to make a traditional plaster cornice with this step-by-step demonstration from Master Plasterer Keith Langton. 🥽

This was filmed at our Heritage Building Skills Programme Summer School in 2024, where our apprentices and trainees learned a range of craft skills from heritage construction experts.

This programme is a major 5-year in-work training and apprenticeships scheme in the North of England, running until 2026.

There is a shortage of specialist heritage construction skills in England. Apprenticeships provide hands-on training in trades such as carpentry and joinery, stonemasonry and plastering.

Learning these crafts will help to preserve and protect the heritage that matters to us all, so it lives on and is loved for longer.

Find out more about our Heritage Building Skills Programme: ➡️ bit.ly/HeritageSkillsProgramme

00:00 - Meet the Plasterer
00:14 - What You'll Need
01:05 - Applying Tallow
01:22 - Gauging the Plaster
02:03 - Applying the First Ins
03:13 - Striking Off the Sides
03:53 - Gauging the Seconds
04:15 - Applying the Hessian
04:38 - Applying the Seconds
04:56 - Adding the Lathes
06:40 - Adding Strength
07:21 - The Final Product
07:54 - Heritage Building Skills
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