stonemason , auch: stonewright old use
monumental mason BrE

The father went to work each day as a stonemason.

He'd just spent time talking to a stonemason who'd been dead for over a hundred years.

He followed his father into a career as a stonemason.

I'm a stonemason, like my father before me, and that's what I mean to be.

Stonemasons cut each piece by hand, building only four inches a day.

I thought that would give us more diversity than just saying we were two stonemasons.

Davidson was also learning to become a stonemason under his father's training.

A crew of stonemasons worked for three months to complete the project.

They almost all gave up their traditional occupation as stonemasons, and took to trade.

They were stonemasons who worked on the first parliament buildings for York.

He continued to work as a stonemason until his election to state parliament in 2011.

Then three stonemasons called to make the same point.

In 1945 and 1946 he worked as a stonemason.

The son of a stonemason, he received a technical education and became a military engineer.

What part did the stonemason play in the creation of heaven on earth?

At least one stonemason is known to have died during the construction, but overall the building had a very good safety record.

The head came off and was glued back by the master stonemason.

At 17 he left school to become a stonemason.

But then what carpenter or stonemason worth his salt would want to live here?

He will need stonemasons, too, all of them that you can locate and hire on.

Most of his uncles and other relatives worked as stonemasons.

His training as a stonemason naturally lead him to build in that material.

He also had trade skills as a cabinet maker and stonemason.

Castle building was an entire industry for the medieval stonemasons.

"I have a team of stonemasons blocking up the one we found.

Many of the inscriptions were communicated by the monumental masons who set them up.

He was educated in the town and apprenticed into the family firm of monumental masons.

Memorial masons or monumental masons carve gravestones and inscriptions.

As the main body of the Pannovalan army made its untidy retreat, it left behind a detail of monumental masons.

Reeves was the most prominent firm of monumental masons (tombstone carvers) in Bath, Somerset.

Headstones of granite, marble and other kinds of stone are usually created, installed, and repaired by monumental masons.

They now not only conduct funerals but have their own joiners and monumental masons making coffins and headstones, and some even own their own crematoria.

He was, fortuitously, apprenticed aged fifteen to the monumental masons, Anselm Odling, and 'learned to carve roses and angels'.

Note that to S. M. Hinds d.1847 signed Reeves, the Bath firm of Monumental masons, that flourished from c.1778 to 1860.

His memorial by monumental masons Edward Stanton (sculptor) and C. Horsnaile is in north chancel aisle of Ely Cathedral.

Broadly speaking, the rocks of the continental crust have the composition of granite, the rather coarse-grained pink- or grey-speckled rock beloved of the more respectable banks and monumental masons.

Most of these pieces of stone were much too small to have been used for monumental masons' work; so still puzzled, he began to ferret about for some clue to what was made out of them.

Because of the emotional significance of the headstone to the family members, monumental masons have to be especially sensitive in their dealings with family members, especially in relation to the trade-off between expectations and cost.

The numerous monuments, many of outstanding quality by monumental masons such as Thomas Adye, John Hickey, John Flaxman, Sir Frances Chantrey, Henry Weekes and Gaffin, were transferred from the old church to the new, as was the church plate.