Working sheep fold at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
incorporating a ‘shadow stone’ in the centre. Part of the Andy Goldsworthy exhibit. Six members of our team received the Pinnacle award from the D.S.W.A.
- step style to access shadow stone
- shadow stone
- laying out stone
- DSWA Pinnacle Award presentation
Seat on the Stanza Stones poetry trail
Conceived by Nick Ferguson Axis Walling and constructed in partnership with Simon Lumb and members of Lunky Associates. This seat can be found on the Pale Hill, Marsden, in a disused quarry. The seats and poems were funded by the Cultural Olympiad in conjunction with Ilkley literature.
- seat in the setting sun
- ‘stanza stones poetry trail’ carved onto seat
Waverley Housing Development
These walls/exhibits are placed at the main entrance road to a new 5000 home development in Sheffield, the black granite coursing running down the centre of the wall is there to represent a coal seam in tribute to the mining background of this area.
- Waverley development in Sheffield.
- Waverley development in Sheffield.
- Waverley development in Sheffield.
- Waverley development in Sheffield.
Doorway from Yateholme Farmhouse
(now at the bottom of Yateholme Reservoir!) mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086. Now refurbished and placed in the entrance to a park.
- new lintel stone as old one was beyond repair
- the entrance in place
Dry stone bridge crossing ha-ha ditch at Wentworth Castle
Arched drainage tunnel, cobbled surface and parapet walls finished with half-round and hogs back top stones. Designed and built by our team (this was substantially cheaper than the oak equivalent!)
- Ha-Ha bridge
- Hogs back and half-round top stones on parapet wall
Working alongside and advising English Heritage at Wentworth, we have renovated hundreds of metres of the country’s oldest known ha-ha wall (an estate wall built at one side of a ditch, designed to contain livestock but not spoil the view). This wall was also housing a greater crested newt colony, an endangered species.
- the full team at Wentworth
- Wentworth ha-ha curve
- We work in all weathers!
- part of restored ha-ha
- haha flat tops
We have also restored a number of the estates’ walls including some damaged by badgers, and carried out teaching workshops where volunteers and staff have learned the basics of dry stone walling.
- before (undermined by badger set)
- after (bridged and reinforced badger doorway)
- Badger smoot!
- before (badger damaged)
- after (with badger smoot)
- 300 metre volunteer training wall
- training wall, Wentworth Estate, Barnsley