This last week was spent surveying, understanding, and preparing an immediate schedule of repairs for a grand, heavy, late Victorian Assembly Room/Theatre ceiling, that after 130 years of age is finally failing. The principal problem is that the wide, false, dropped, plastered beams do not correspond to the main Tie Beams, and are hung on ceiling joists with 4 metre spans. Because of the short time available repairs have started immediately, introducing additional timber supports and hangers above, whilst mechanically securing back the original gypsum gauged, haired lime plaster, from below, before crack filling and redecoration.