Ashbourne Shrovetide Football Event New Stone Turn Up Platform – Behind The Scenes
We started working on the Shrovetide project in the beginning of Autumn last year with the build team and the Shrovetide committee, it had been agreed the stand was to be built in local sandstone and its unique circular design meant only a specialist stone yard such as ours with CNC cutting facilities could take on this project.
It has probably taken many hours in production overall and consists or Radius Ashlar, Radius Copings and radius Steps with Bullnose edging both Internal and External so a complex design.
The build team have liaised on a daily basis with us here to tweak sizes on pieces where has been necessary, it has been beneficial this project is so close in proximity to us here as there has been more tweaking towards the end of the build as the steps proved more challenging to develop that sections of the Ashlar itself.
The stonemasons went to site last week to complete the inscription ASHBOURNE ROYAL SHROVETIDE FOOTBALL which completes the new stand is is truly impressive to say the least and will be there for centuries to come.
Over the pre Christmas free and New Year freeze, we couldn’t go much work, so that meant the project was further delayed – adding to the pressure of getting it completed on time.
After much hard work but everyone involved, looming deadlines and last minute adjustments; the monument was completed and ready. You can read about it HERE.
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