Scindia School, Gwalior

The Scindia School at Gwalior Fort is a residential school for boys founded in 1897 by the late Maharaja Madhavrao Jayaji Rao Scindia. The architecture of the School is contemporary to the British Barracks of the colonial era. The work entails the restoration and conservation of the façade and the corridors of the main school building. There are many heritage buildings in the school campus but AHD started work on a proposal for restoring the work assigned on the Main School Building. The semi-circular arches of the façade are typical of the colonial style which protect the classrooms from the heat and the rains. Due to several interventions over the past few years, the rear and side corridors of the building were covered and converted into classrooms. In the corridors, the traditional lime plaster was found to be replaced with cement plaster. On the façade, blackening of stone has been a major concern and a some stones elements were found to be broken and missing. The work on site commenced in July this year. The closed corridors are being opened up and re-plastered with lime mortar, to regain the original architecture of the building. Simultaneously, work on cleaning of front façade has also started. AHD aims to bring the building back to its original beauty