The Worshipful Company of Masons

 

Stone is often taken for granted. It is seen but not observed. Its variety of shape, form, texture, durability, colour and warmth are un-noticed until an effort is made to observe them. Then those characteristics tell us so much about the social, artistic, economic and architectural capabilities and achievements of a period. Stone is frequently thought of as fixed and rigid but the flowing shapes it can assume are often apparent in old churches and buildings and, perhaps even more, in some modern structures.