Case study · Stonework

Hand-Cut Stone Lettering

We cut a house name and number into the stone of an existing gate pier, set out with a paper stencil, with a quatrefoil in each corner of the panel.

Lettering

Incised italic, quatrefoil corners

Setting out

Paper stencil

A stone gate pier at the end of a rubble wall, beside a red iron gate. Its plain stone panel carried a brass number 5 and nothing else.

We cut the house name into that panel, with a quatrefoil in each corner, and cut the number into the stone band below.

Before: a brass number

The pier had a plain, dark, weathered stone panel under a flat coping stone. A brass 5 was fixed to it with two screws.

Below the panel is a blank stone band. The wall around it is rubble stone with wide pointing.

Stone gate pier with a plain dark panel carrying a brass number 5, a blank stone band below and red-painted gate ironwork to the left. — Two screws held the brass 5 to the panel.

Paper stencil

The wording was cut out of paper first. One sheet carries the name in an italic letter, with a motif cut in each top corner. A separate strip carries the number.

The same italic letters are the ones now in the stone.

Two white paper stencils on dark cloth, one cut with The Parsonage and two corner motifs, the other cut with No. 5. — The wording, cut out of paper first.

Cut and finished

The Parsonage is cut into the same panel, with a quatrefoil in each corner. No. 5 is cut into the band below.

The fresh cuts show pink against the dark face of the stone.

Stone gate pier with The Parsonage cut into a dark panel with quatrefoil corners, No. 5 cut in the band below. — The same panel as before, with the brass 5 gone.

Close view of The Parsonage in italic letters cut into dark stone, a quatrefoil in each corner, and No. 5 cut into the band below. — Fresh cuts show pink against the weathered face.

The result

Before & after

The gate pier panel

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