Natural Stone Memorials

While the fear of dying from a virus has all but disappeared from most of society, memorial masons and the rest of the death care sector are still busy.

The entrance to Staffordshire’s National Memorial Arboretum has a new feature – a sculpture by local artist Graeme Mitcheson in granite from Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry, near Loughborough, in Leicestershire.

Marble burial niche collapse leaves coffins dangling in the air

Memorial masonry directors banned after accepting deposits when insolvent

The growing British Register of Accredited Memorial Masons marks its expansion by appointing its first Executive Officer.

The 37-tonne marble memorial the council says should have been a stone no more than 75mm thick and no taller than 1.35 metres from ground level.