Entertainment and leisure.

Stone Carving Workshops

Whether you’re looking for an experience to remember with a piece you carved to take home, to add some new techniques to your sculptors or stonemasons repertoire or learn more about the crafts history and while getting the feel for the tools little change over time you’ll find the academies extensive courses offer just the thing.

Choose from topics including relief carving, gargoyles and grotesques, letter cutting, banker work and more. Please bring any drawings, maquettes, ideas, sketch book and pencils.

By the end of your time with us you’ll be ready to go home and impress your family and friends with your newly acquired skills and knowledge!

Support Training and Education 

The Stonemasons Guild of St Stephen provides a selection of services in support of our registered objectives; education around stonemasonry skills and craftsmanship, record-keeping (maintenance of an archive and collection) and sharing and the actively supporting of the intangible heritage of the craft;  its history, culture, skills, traditions and in my opinion the most important, community.

We fund much of this work through the money raised from carving workshops, talks and demonstrations we offer to the public. 
The education for young people and support of all the objectives above directly relating to training of craftspeople and our communities are offered free. By being able to offer these educational programs free of charge, the Guild enables even those who may not have the means to access this educational experience and to to learn and appreciate this unique craft and culture whether it be schools or those who wish to pursue formal training.

Historical, Heritage and Archaeological Study

We offer a range of study events and practical and theoretical talks and demonstrations.

Technical training

For those talking their carving or banker work seriously, we offer training at all levels to stonemasons, sculptors and the general public.

We can work on overall improvement to your skills or specific techniques can be discussed and practiced.

Workshop days are most productive when held over the course of a working day, typically 9am – 4pm, with a scheduled lunch break and provision for informal refreshment breaks, which are particularly important for newcomers to the craft who will need time to develop their stamina and focus within the craft process.

Stephen will recommend a project that can realistically be comfortably completed within the allotted day or programme schedule and students usually take their completed works home to show family and friends.