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The latest news from the Stone Industry
25 July 2016 | Stone Heritage
Scotland is having a Year of History, Heritage & Archaeology in 2017, which has attracted backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).The aim of the designation of next year is to inspire people...

This is one of SPAB's Top 20 floors. It is an Elizabethan flagstone floor in the kitchen at Canons Ashby. SPAB is running a campaign to increase the recognition of the importance of floors as part of the historic fabric of a building to prevent them being lost.
Photo: National Trust Images – Andreas von Einsiedel
7 June 2016 | Stone Heritage
SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) has started a campaign, called History at your Feet, to protect the floors of heritage buildings.SPAB has a statutory right to be consulted over...
2 June 2016 | Stone Heritage
Heather Humphreys, the Irish Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has today (2 June) announced funding of €904,530 for 57 heritage projects under the Structures at Risk Fund (SRF). The...
17 May 2016 | Stone Heritage
The Government has provided additional funding to Civic Voice, Historic England and the War Memorials Trust to ensure as many war memorials as possible are appreciated and cared for by their local...
16 February 2016 | Stone Heritage
While the number of people attending church services on Sundays is falling (in the Church of England, at least) more than half the UK population will visit a place of worship each year and most...
13 November 2015 | Stone Heritage
English Heritage, the charity looking after English Heritage properties and sites since the old English Heritage was split into two organisation (the charity and Historic England) in April, is...
3 November 2015 | Stone Heritage
The Welsh slate industry was not entirely sure it wanted to be seen as a ‘World Heritage’, because the quarry operators consider themselves part of a thriving, modern industry. But it is...
17 September 2015 | Stone Heritage
After winning this year’s RICS Award for Building Conservation for The Black Barn in Northumberland, Team Force Restoration, based in Blyth, Northumberland, is now working on a careful masonry...
17 September 2015 | Stone Heritage
Clitheroe Civic Society is spearheading an urgent project to see the historic Palace of Westminster Pinnacle in the Lancashire town’s castle grounds repaired by Heritage Conservation...
17 September 2015 | Stone Heritage
Applications are now being invited for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) 2016 William Morris Craft Fellowship.There are only four on offer each year. They do tend to alter...
20 July 2015 | Stone Heritage
by Antonia Hockton, July 2015The south light plays across the surface, picking out fruit from one of the trees that rest on the bank of a body of water, the river of life. The stone is Ancaster Hard...
17 July 2015 | Stone Heritage
In remote areas of Nepal, where a 50kg bag of cement costs as much as 10 days’ labour, the favoured method of construction is two layers of dry stone walls with a core of mud, cow dung and...
17 July 2015 | Stone Heritage
The use of natural hydraulic lime (NHL) mortars to replace Portland cement mortars used to repair ancient stone walls previously might have been as harmful to the stone as the Portland cement was....
17 July 2015 | Stone Heritage
Stone and conservation specialist Cliveden Conservation from Maidenhead, Berkshire, and Northern Ireland stone specialist S McConnell & Sons, with its heavyweight CNC machinery, have worked...
17 July 2015 | Stone Heritage
The Muckle Cross in the centre of Elgin, made from the local Clashach sandstone and one of the oldest monuments in Moray, Scotland, is to be given a facelift.The restoration of the Muckle Cross has...