SS. Egidio and Omobono church in Cremona. A methodology of integrated research for damp diagnosis in brick walls; a historical case of apparent rising damp

SS. Egidio and Omobono church did not seem to indicate the presence of structural problems, while the most important pathologies discovered on the materials indicated a cortical deterioration - even deeply, maybe - due to the rising damp. our working hypotesis to verify the actual presence of water in the brick work was both in the most deterioration parts and also in the parts where it seemed drier......