On 21 May Lincoln is holding a celebration of 1,000 years of traditional crafts, including stonemasonry.

Lincoln’s medieval cathedral with its imposing Romanesque frieze on the west front and its castle museum where Magna Carta is one of the exhibits, face each other at the highest point in the city at the top of the hill.

The Cathedral is one of nine in the UK that retains its stonemasonry workshop and the masons from the workshop will be joined by others from other cathedral workshops in the UK during the event, as well as masons from Trondheim Cathedral in Norway, French masons of Les Compagnons de Devoir and others from America.

The cathedrals that have their own masonry workshops co-operate through the Cathedral Workshop Fellowship and 14 of the Fellowship apprentices will be giving a working demonstration of their skills during the event.

Tickets cost £10 in advance (they can be bought from the website address below) or £11 on the day. They entitle you to entry to the castle, the cathedral and its workshops. The Museum of Lincolnshire Life, to which entry is free, will fire up some of its steam engines for the event and Ellis Mill will be producing flour. And if walking up the steep hill gives you an appetite the ‘Tastes of Lincolnshire’ food fair will have just what you need.