Natural Stone Memorials
The latest news from the Stone Industry
The 'halo' of Carrara marble called The Glade of Light that commemorates those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017.
Photo: Manchester City Council
The designs of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to be carved life size in Portland limestone for the Royal Albert Hall by London Stone Carving.
Normandy Veterans at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer.
The granite memorial carrying the blue plaque made by Bognor Regis memorial mason The Memorial Stone Centre.
The winning entry in the new Memorial Design Award category of the Cemetery of the Year Awards. It is the work of Mackays Memorial Headstones in Scotland.
David Francis, who sadly died on 7 August after a long and fulfilling life in the stone industry. He is a great loss to the industry.
An exhibition called The Geology of Oxford Gravestones opens in the Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, on Saturday 17 July and runs until 12 September.
The British Normandy Memorial commemorating those under British command who lost their lives on D-Day in 1944 and the subsequent Battle of Normandy.
The Farndale memorial from Odlings in a Lavender Blue granite. Odlings was 150 years old last year but celebrations were unfortunately curtailed by Covid.
Cromer War Memorial following its renovation by Cliveden Conservation, which gained the company an Award in the Carving, Lettering & Sculpture category of 2020's 20th Natural Stone Awards, presented online only this year.
The Massangis limestone memorial in Normandy to those under British command who died on D-Day and in the subsequent battle was unveiled on Sunday, 6 June.
A 32-page report from the Church of England tells churches and cathedrals how to address historic racism recorded in stone and glass in the buildings. The report can be downloaded here.
There is a new £1,000 prize for the best memorial in the Cemetery of the Year Awards this year.
Norrvidinge of Sweden has made a memorial foundation using recycled plastic.
Stone-Safe has developed an ecological recycled plastic memorial headstone fixing system.