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About Me
I studied Stonemasonry
and Architectural Carving at Weymouth College in 1999.
Whilst at college I developed a particular interest in lettercutting, I then went onto study lettering at the
Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in Cambridge under Lida. Whilst there I completed a number of major projects including a piece
in Westminster Abbey.
Following that
training I worked for two historic building conservation/restoration companies, Nimbus Conservation Ltd and Strachey and Strachey
Conservation, both based in Somerset. I gained experience with the use of limes, repair techniques and ethics of stone conservation
working on listed churches, abbey’s, manor houses and monuments.
I took numerous residential short courses with The Weald and Downland Museum and the Society
for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the history and use of limes, historic building conservation practice and stone
conservation all over England.
I left
Strachey and Strachey Conservation to become self employed with a workshop in Yarley, Somerset. Whilst self employed I won
a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to study gilding at West Dean College, which encompassed both oil and water gilding.
I later moved to Normandy, France and set up Artisan
Stone Work doing traditional building repair and restoration, working in Normandie, the Vendèe and the Limousin regions.
Our work was the sympathic care and repair of old buildings and included rebuilding in stone broad-walled construction with
lime mortars, repairs to rammed earth walling and lime harling, plastering, rendering and pointing. We then lectured on the
S.P.A.B. course “Restoring a House in France” as the specialist contractors.
I am now registered as The Stone Workshop, doing lettercutting and carving
to commission from my workshop in Le Chefresne in La Manche.
CV
Born in London 1979 Secondary education - ‘90- ‘95 Budmouth School, Weymouth, Dorset 8
GCSE’s Further education - Weymouth College
- ‘95 - ‘97 BTEC ND in Jazz Studies -‘97 -‘99 NVQ 3 in Stonemasonry
and Architectural Carving The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, Cambridge, ‘99 -2000 - Lettercutting Employment Copsey and Coe 1998 Dorchester Barns, Dorset - rake and repoint in lime mortar. 1998 Waynefleet Tower, Esher,
Surrey - 15th C gatehouse, cleaning of stonework, repointing and grouting. 1998 Captains House, Portland,
Dorset - 18th C mansion in Portland stone, rebuild. Nimbus Conservation Ltd 1999 Winterbourne Came, Dorset - Repointing and masonry repairs to church tower. 2000
Corfe Castle, Dorset - Butavent Tower and 11th C curtain wall, consolidation and core work. 2000 Brodsworth
Hall, South Yorkshire - Cleaning of marble statuary. 2000 - 2001 Cloford Manor, Somerset - Replacement masonry,
fixing, mortar repairs, plaster repairs, repointing and shelter coating. 2001 St Georges Church Portland, Dorset
- Repointing ashlar, repairs and refixing of Portland headstones. 2001 Ansty, Wiltshire - Replacement masonry
mullion windows, repointing.
Strachey and Strachey Conservation 2001-
2002 Beaminster, Dorset - 16th C church tower in Hamstone, repairs to pinnacles, string course, windows, blind
tracery. Dismantle and rebuild, replacement masonry, mortar repairs, repointing and shelter coating. 2002 Carmarthen,
South Wales - 80 wall monuments, cleaning, dismantling, rebuilding and repair to marble, alabaster, slate, limestone and sandstones. 2002
Beaminster, Dorset -17th C monuments, cleaning of marble, dismantle and rebuild with DPM. 2002- 03
Chewton Mendip, Somerset - Church tower partial dismantling and rebuild of pinnacles, stone replacement, repointing, mortar
repairs and shelter coating of Bath stone. 2003 Taunton, Somerset - Church nave and clerestory in Hamstone, cleaning
of carbon deposits, mortar repairs, repointing, fixing and extensive stone replacement of masonry and carving. 2003-2004
Bridgewater, Somerset -Church tower, bathstone dressings and blue lias walling. Replacement of stone to mullion windows, rebuild
of parapet and repointing rubble walling.
Self employed in Yarley, Somerset. 2004 Glastonbury, Somerset - Market Cross, recarving of pinnacles in Bath stone. 2004 Priddy, Somerset
- Private barns, rake out and repoint internal stone work. Private commissions - fireplaces, lettering. 2005
The Old School House, Godney, Somerset - New mullion windows in Bath stone 2005 Blackford, Somerset -Blackford
church, new stone work, mortar repairs and repointing.
Artisan Stone Work based in Normandy 2005 Crouzillac, Limousin -Napoleonic farmhouse, dismantle and rebuild of collapsing gable end,
rebuilt in 500mm thick, coursed rubble walling in lime mortar. 2006 Champ Guichon, Orne -Rebuild of collapsed gable
end. 2006 Pont d’Ouilly, Calvados -Repointing in lime 2006 La Croix Vautier, Manche -Rammed
earth farmhouse, removal of 5 inch thick, 1950’s cement render to front elevation. Repairs to eroded earth walling,
rebuild of sections of stone walling, pointed and harled in lime and lime washed. 2006 Le Langon, Vendee -Limestone
outbuilding, leaning wall with makeshift buttress. 3mtrs high by 18mtrs long, 40 tonnes of stone. Take down roof, dismantle
wall and rebuild, rebuilt in its original courses in lime mortar. 2007 La Croix Vautier, Manche -Side elevations
of the same building.
The
Stone Workshop, Le Chefresne 2008 - Creation of a new entreprise, The Stone
Workshop doing letter cutting and carving to commission.
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