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17 May 2010 | Stone Heritage
The varied geology of Scotland has created distinct built environments that stretch back 5,000 years.The geological history of Scotland has given the nation as wide a range of stones as are to be...
15 April 2010 | Stone Heritage
The new fountain at Kenilworth Castle is fit for a Queen. But which Queen? Elizabeth I or Elizabeth II? There is no doubting the skill of the carvers or the beauty of the Carrara marble fountain in...
15 March 2010 | Stone Heritage
Nick Rymer, formerly with Hollington stone quarry company Staffordshire Stone, has set up a new company called Historic Stone to supply a range of sandstones to the conservation / heritage market....
23 January 2010 | Stone Heritage
The UK’s first taskforce aiming to place historic churches at risk at the heart of community led regeneration has been formed by a partnership of national, public and church bodies, led by the...
15 November 2009 | Stone Heritage
One of the pilot studies for the Strategic Stone Study was carried out by the Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group. It reached its successful conclusion earlier this year. Maurice Rogers from...
14 October 2009 | Stone Heritage
Linford-Bridgeman, the restoration specialists of the Lichfield-based Linford Group, are returning to the Grade I listed Stowe House to carry out the latest round of repairs.Linford-Bridgeman have...
14 October 2009 | Stone Heritage
Conservation specialists St Blaise have come to the end of nearly a year’s work restoring the historic Grade I Elizabethan mansion of Grove Place, in Romsey, Hampshire, with its two distinctive...
14 August 2009 | Stone Heritage
The Leptis Magna Roman ruins were given to George IV by the Bashaw of Tripoli in the early 19th century. They were erected in Windsor Great Park but laid flat during World War II to protect them....
14 August 2009 | Stone Heritage
A building the size and age of the Tower of London requires constant attention and the latest project there was to refurbish the southern steps of the New Armouries building in the south-eastern...
14 August 2009 | Stone Heritage
For Laings Traditional Masonry a fascinating part of the £1million restoration of Craigievar Castle near Alford in Aberdeenshire has been the creation of 23 Stone ‘water cannons’,...
14 August 2009 | Stone Heritage
The picture here shows some of the Hartham Park Bath stone and knapped flint work of AF Jones Stonesmasons of Reading, Berkshire, on the privately owned Old Bridge House next to the Thames in Marlow...
14 August 2009 | Stone Heritage
Natural England, working in partnership with English Heritage, Hadrian’s Wall Heritage, the Northumberland National Park and a land-owner, have funded £250,000-worth of work that has...
14 August 2009 | Stone Heritage
One of the most extraordinary projects by a British conservation company is Cliveden Conservation’s work at Aphrodisias in Turkey. Cliveden are now in their 18th year at this important city of...
14 August 2009 | Stone Heritage
Now that the Victorian Gothic of George Gilbert Scott’s Leeds General Infirmary (generally known as the LGI) has started to be revealed in all its glory by cleaning and restoration work carried...
14 August 2009 | Stone Heritage
Triton Building Conservation were established in March last year as a sister company to Triton Building Restoration, an external refurbishment company in London. The aim of the new company is to...