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Rouba, Bogumiła J.: Klimat we wnętrzach zabytkowych kościołów z punktu widzenia konserwatora dzieł sztuki
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BOGUMIŁA J. ROUBA
THE CLIMATE INSIDE ANTIQUE CHURCHES FROM THE POINT
OF VIEW OF A WORKS OF ART CONSERVATOR
S u m m a r y
The author, a practitioner-conservator, lectures on some issues of préservation prophylactics
and she conducts research on the reasons for and mechanisms of decay of works of art. One
of the Unes of research in this respect is looking for climatic relations in muséum and church
interiors. Old buildings are complex organisms in which the climate remains a resuit of the
interaction of numerous factors. In turn, the climate of an interior also generates a lot of
dependence forming the character and pace of decaying processes in the matter of the very
building and ali its furniture.
The problems of excessive dryness of the interior that are typical of muséums practically
do not occur in churches. They only concern those churches where heating has been intro-
duced. Fortunately, in Poland most old churches do not hâve heating Systems. However, the
odds are that the fashion requiring that each church should hâve one with time will also pre-
vai 1 in the ones that hâve remained with a natural climate for centuries. The problem of sea-
sonal over-dryness occurs in modem churches built of Steel and concrète that hâve big Win-
dows and are utterly defeneeless against the outer climate. In such cases over-dryness appears
not only in winter, when the heating is working, but also in the summer. In churches that are
not heated we never hâve the problem of too low wetness, and especially of the need to
moisten their interiors.
The main factor that causes dévastation of a building and its furniture is condensation of
water vapour caused by de-stabilising climatic conditions in its interior. Research has shown
that when looking for an answer to the conservator’s question about the causes of decay one
should base his reasoning upon the data obtained from measuring the parameters of the climate
in the church and on recognising the frequency of condensation occurrence.
The interior climate may be corrected by removing the walls’ dampness and its cause; by
introducing effective ventilation and by a resulting possibility to eliminate the devastating
condensation phenomena. Heating the church is only another measure that serves correcting
the climate. Here the author gives detailed conditions for introduction of heating. However.
the final decision has to resuit from detailed settlements reached by the user and the conserva-
tor. Hence no actions may be initiated without assuming full responsibility for their results,
even distant ones, and for their impact on the future fate of the building.
Translatecl by Tadeusz. Karłowicz.
BOGUMIŁA J. ROUBA
THE CLIMATE INSIDE ANTIQUE CHURCHES FROM THE POINT
OF VIEW OF A WORKS OF ART CONSERVATOR
S u m m a r y
The author, a practitioner-conservator, lectures on some issues of préservation prophylactics
and she conducts research on the reasons for and mechanisms of decay of works of art. One
of the Unes of research in this respect is looking for climatic relations in muséum and church
interiors. Old buildings are complex organisms in which the climate remains a resuit of the
interaction of numerous factors. In turn, the climate of an interior also generates a lot of
dependence forming the character and pace of decaying processes in the matter of the very
building and ali its furniture.
The problems of excessive dryness of the interior that are typical of muséums practically
do not occur in churches. They only concern those churches where heating has been intro-
duced. Fortunately, in Poland most old churches do not hâve heating Systems. However, the
odds are that the fashion requiring that each church should hâve one with time will also pre-
vai 1 in the ones that hâve remained with a natural climate for centuries. The problem of sea-
sonal over-dryness occurs in modem churches built of Steel and concrète that hâve big Win-
dows and are utterly defeneeless against the outer climate. In such cases over-dryness appears
not only in winter, when the heating is working, but also in the summer. In churches that are
not heated we never hâve the problem of too low wetness, and especially of the need to
moisten their interiors.
The main factor that causes dévastation of a building and its furniture is condensation of
water vapour caused by de-stabilising climatic conditions in its interior. Research has shown
that when looking for an answer to the conservator’s question about the causes of decay one
should base his reasoning upon the data obtained from measuring the parameters of the climate
in the church and on recognising the frequency of condensation occurrence.
The interior climate may be corrected by removing the walls’ dampness and its cause; by
introducing effective ventilation and by a resulting possibility to eliminate the devastating
condensation phenomena. Heating the church is only another measure that serves correcting
the climate. Here the author gives detailed conditions for introduction of heating. However.
the final decision has to resuit from detailed settlements reached by the user and the conserva-
tor. Hence no actions may be initiated without assuming full responsibility for their results,
even distant ones, and for their impact on the future fate of the building.
Translatecl by Tadeusz. Karłowicz.