St Michael’s Roman Catholic Church in Birmingham is a listed building built as a Unitarian Meeting House and remodelled as a Roman Catholic church in 1862. It is now being used by the Polish community in Birmingham which commissioned architects Daniel Hurd Associates to refurbish the interior of the church.

They chose stone specialist stoneCIRCLE, in Basingstoke and Newbury, a company they have worked with on other ecclesiastical projects, to manufacture the stonework for the project.

The main stone used was Jura Beige limestone, with Jura Blue as an accent throughout. The aisle floor and altar area were tiled in the stone and a celtic cross inlaid, using Jura Beige and Blue and Crema Grey Light Jerusalem Stone, which was also used for the skirting to provide contrast on the back wall. The cross inlay was achieved on stoneCIRCLE’s new Naiky Nova water jet cutter.

A limestone arch was constructed to complete the line-up of altar, font, tabernacle, altar shelf and lectern all in Jura Beige with Jura Blue detailing. The font and tabernacle have cut lettering picked out in gold.