York Minster Stone Carving Festival
Saturday, 14th August 2010
On the 14th and 15th August, York Minster will hold a Stone Carving Festival for Masons, Carvers, Sculptors and Apprentices from across
The Stone Carving Festival will be the first to be held at York Minster in ten years since the hugely successful York Stone Festival in 2000 when the octagonal stone bench in Dean’s Park was created and will see up to eighty Masons and Carvers working on stones in the Minster School Grounds. There will be entertainment throughout both days.
The Festival will follow the annual Stoneyard Open day which will fall on Friday 13th August and is always extremely popular with
The stones will then be auctioned off to the public on Sunday and all the proceeds will be divided between York Minster Fund and York Against Cancer. The Dean of York, the Very Reverend Keith Jones, says, ‘York Minster IS a stone festival! It’s a festival of imagination, ingenuity and sheer skill, worked into the marvellous stuff which the world is made of: rock. This will please the eye and lift the heart.’
A drawing competition is open to all children up to 11 years old. For details of how to enter go to www.yorkminster.org
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