A STONEMASON who recently replaced more than a thousand marble floor tiles at an historical East Lancashire College will now transform the outside of the building too.
Terry McGough, who works at Stonyhurst College, near Clitheroe, was set the daunting task of refitting 1,300 large Italian marble floor tiles which had been removed from the College's Jacobean refectory as part of its four-year rebuilding programme.
And after passing the test with flying colours, Terry has now been given another project to get his teeth into -- but this time on a much smaller scale.
The craftsman, who constructed the tomb for the late Archbishop Warlock and also made the commemorative plaque which marked the Queen's opening of the Liverpool Maritime Museum, must now up-grade the signage for both the College and St Mary's Hall.
The new signs are made from slate and embedded in locally-quarried stone. Director of Admissions at the College Peter Anwyl said: "It is in the nature of things that the work of a stonemason well outlasts the craftsman himself, and Terry, too, will leave an indelible mark on the college's historic stonework."
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