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The yard · Brunswick Place

Fifty-seven years in the same yard

1968
founded
by a mason who is still consulted
3
generations
and one apprentice each year
200
tonnes
under cover, seasoning
2
hours
the radius we survey free
Getting in touch

A photograph and a postcode

That is genuinely enough to start. Send a picture of what is worrying you and roughly where it is, and you will get an opinion from a mason - not a form response, and not a salesperson booking an appointment.
  • The Yard, Brunswick PlaceOpen 7.30 to 4.30, Monday to Friday. Come without an appointment.
  • 01524 555 0119Answered in the office, and in the shop when the office is out
  • yard@metrostonewright.exampleRead by two people, answered within two working days
  • Deliveries and collectionsGate 2, off Cornall Street. HGV access, hard standing.

Tell us about the building

Where it is, roughly when it was built if you know, and what has prompted you to look at it. There is no wrong amount of detail.

The banker shop, with blocks on the benches and the gantry above
Visiting

Come on a Tuesday, when the saw is running

There is no showroom and there never will be. What there is is a working shop with six benches, and the best way to decide whether you want us is to watch somebody cut a moulding for half an hour.
Boots, and nothing loose. We will find you ear defenders.

Finding the yard

Behind the terrace on Brunswick Place, through the arch. If the satnav sends you to the houses, you are in the right street and the wrong end of it.
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Who you will be dealing with

Three names, and they answer their own phones

Eamon Brophy

Eamon Brophy

Yard foreman

Thirty-one years here, apprenticed to the founder. Runs the shop, prices the stone, and is the person who will tell you if your job is not worth doing.

Ruth Oyelaran

Ruth Oyelaran

Surveying and drawings

Conservation accredited, eleven years with us and six before that at a cathedral works department. Everything drawn here goes past her.

Tomasz Wierzbicki

Tomasz Wierzbicki

Head carver

Lettering and enrichment, trained in Krakow and at the City and Guilds. The waiting list for carved work is his diary, not ours.

If it is falling and somebody is underneath it, ring. Do not email.

Emergency make-safe, any hour, anywhere within the two hours. We would rather come out for nothing than read about it.
01524 555 0119

Metro Stonewright

Stonemasons and lime specialists. Founded 1968. Six banker masons, two carvers, one yard, and no subcontracted stone.
  • On the Historic England approved list
  • Every job photographed and archivedDrawings and a written schedule go to the client, not just an invoice
METRO STONEWRIGHT LTD · THE YARD, BRUNSWICK PLACE · ALL WORK TO BS 7913 AND THE SPAB APPROACH