Archive for the ‘Stonemason’s Festival’ Category

Ludlow Stonecarving Festival.

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Well another exhilerating weekend has come and gone!! Stonemasons descended on this beautiful example of a Medieval town to carve an unknown stone in order to help raise money for St Laurences Church in Ludlow. We were given the choice of two sizes of local sandstone from a quarry near Shrewsbury-it was incredibly abrasive and ...

Ludlow Stonemasons festival

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Really looking forward to this event on the 21st and 22nd May, for more information please visit http://www.stlaurences.org.uk/ludlow-conservation-weekend This promises to be a very exciting weekend with many interesting events talks and walk as well as the opportunities to watch professional stonemasons at work, at the end you will have the opportunity ...

Highnam Court Spring Fair 2011

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Thank-you to everyone who came and supported me at this years event! My carving from last year raised £120 for The Pied Piper Appeal and Gloucester Cathedral. The auction was drawn on the Saturday and the lucky winners were very proud to win my Gargoyle! Over the whole weekend I carved a ...

International festival 2013!!

Monday, April 11th, 2011

Well I finally have confimation of the site! I will be organising an International Stonemasons Festival in 2013 at The Llanthony Secunda Priory in Gloucester. It is located near the docks on the canal! The charities that this event will be supporting  are The Llanthony Priory Trust and The Gloucestershire Geology Trust. I ...

Stonemasons Festival 2011

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

THE GREATER CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, LUDLOW STONE CARVING FESTIVAL Saturday 21 – Sunday 22 May 2011 An invitation to masons, carvers, sculptors and stonework apprentices to take part in a Stone Carving Festival organised by The Conservation Trust for St Laurence, Ludlow, as a fund-raising event to contribute to the £27,000 urgently ...