A comprehensive and practical reference source which explores the use of lime, cements, mortars, renderings and plaster. Provides a detailed description of the use of hydraulic and non-hydraulic limes, an analysis of traditional and modern mortar additives, a guide to external renderings, to gypsum plaster and to limewashes and lime paints. Techniques are illustrated by two English case studies: the three phase cleaning and consolidation of the Chapel plaster at Cowdray House ruins and the remedial work on the lime plaster at Richmond Castle cell block. Photographs, line drawings, bibligraphic references.