Rachael Barratt of the company Clipsham Stone Products, established in 2011 to sell Clipsham limestone as home and garden wares such as lamps, platters, hotplates, trivets and coasters, feels Clipsham Quarry Company was unfairly left out of the report in Natural Stone Specialist last month on the Bishop Edward King Chapel, one of the six shortlisted projects for the RIBA Stirling Prize last year.

She is right and we apologise. Clipsham Quarry Company should have been credited as the source of the stone, which was worked and supplied to site by Stamford Stone.

Rachael’s email said: “Having just read the latest Natural Stone Specialist magazine, we were delighted to see the article on the Bishop Edward King Chapel. Great images and a highly informative article. But there is a ‘but’...

“I recently attended the Stone Federation’s ‘Use of Stone in Building’ course and listened to the passion with which a number of the speakers spoke regarding architects and customers taking a proactive approach to stone selection.

“Thus, it was disappointing that the aforementioned article did not mention how proactive Niall McLaughlin Architects were in taking Peter Harrison’s stone recommendation, visiting the quarry and then specifying where the stone for the project should be sourced from.

“I believe we are all ‘singing from the same hymn sheet’ and trying to encourage a more proactive relationship and hence enhanced understanding between all parties in the stone supply chain. So it was disappointing that having celebrated how well this worked with Ripon College, it was not mentioned in the article nor any acknowledgement of Clipsham Quarry Company.

“People have different takes / perspectives to report from and you can never please all of the people all of the time; we wholly understand and respect this. But we needed to let you know our ‘thank you, great to see the project profiled but...’ feedback. We hope you understand this?”

Indeed we do, Rachael.