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Credit: Clive Totman
Credit: URBAN LEARNERS
Credit: URBAN LEARNERS
Credit: Peter Ayres
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event
St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4M 8AD
what3words: curry.score.tiger
Experience hands-on techniques with experts and artists in two nearby locations. Experiment with stone, paper sculpting and weaving. Part of a cultural programme delivered by City of London Corporation and Cheapside Business Alliance, produced by URBAN LEARNERS, encouraging discussion on reuse and heritage focused on historic granite stones repurposed as inclusive seating by St Paul’s Cathedral.
Bank, St. Paul's
Blackfriars, Cannon Street, City Thameslink
17, 133, 15, 26, 76
Event in two nearby venues: St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD (curry.score.tiger) Temple Bar, 2 Paternoster Sq, EC4M 7DX (tables.rotate.prom)
Children are welcome to attend with a parent/guardian. If you have specific access requirements please contact: events@urbanlearners.org
St Paul's Churchyard - 3 outdoor activities with step-free access. Temple Bar - 3 indoor seated activities with lift access.
Credit: Urban Learners
Credit: Clive Totman
Credit: URBAN LEARNERS
Credit: URBAN LEARNERS
Credit: Peter Ayres
Credit: URBAN LEARNERS
10:30–16:00
Join Urban Learners to sketch details of English Baroque Stonework. At: St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD
10:30–16:00
Create rubbings of carved stones by master masons from PAYE Stonework & Restoration. At: St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD
Workshop
11:00–12:00
Paper Sculpting with Peter Ayres, Weaving and Making Stone Charms with URBAN LEARNERS. At: Temple Bar, 2 Paternoster Sq, EC4M 7DX
How to book
Bookings will open at midday on 19 August. You won't be able to book a ticket before then. You'll need to log into your account before you book.
Workshop
12:00–13:00
Paper Sculpting with Peter Ayres, Weaving and Making Stone Charms with URBAN LEARNERS. At: Temple Bar, 2 Paternoster Sq, EC4M 7DX
How to book
Bookings will open at midday on 19 August. You won't be able to book a ticket before then. You'll need to log into your account before you book.
Workshop
13:00–14:00
Paper Sculpting with Peter Ayres, Weaving and Making Stone Charms with URBAN LEARNERS. At: Temple Bar, 2 Paternoster Sq, EC4M 7DX
How to book
Bookings will open at midday on 19 August. You won't be able to book a ticket before then. You'll need to log into your account before you book.
Workshop
13:00–13:45
Gain hands-on experience in historic stone carving, with master masons, PAYE Stonework & Restoration. At: St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD
How to book
Bookings will open at midday on 19 August. You won't be able to book a ticket before then. You'll need to log into your account before you book.
Workshop
14:00–15:00
Paper Sculpting with Peter Ayres, Weaving and Making Stone Charms with URBAN LEARNERS. At: Temple Bar, 2 Paternoster Sq, EC4M 7DX
How to book
Bookings will open at midday on 19 August. You won't be able to book a ticket before then. You'll need to log into your account before you book.
Workshop
15:00–16:00
Paper Sculpting with Peter Ayres, Weaving and Making Stone Charms with URBAN LEARNERS. At: Temple Bar, 2 Paternoster Sq, EC4M 7DX
How to book
Bookings will open at midday on 19 August. You won't be able to book a ticket before then. You'll need to log into your account before you book.
A complementary programme of activities delivered by City of London Corporation and Cheapside Business Alliance to celebrate the cultural place making project: 'From the Thames to Eternity'. This project reimagines historic granite stone from the 19th century River Thames at Victoria Embankment as new accessible public seating near St Paul’s Cathedral.
At a time when cities are rethinking how they build – and what they build with – this project offers a quietly radical proposition: that the most sustainable material is often the one already here. That reuse is not merely practical, but profound. And that in choosing to honour what came before, we build more thoughtfully for what comes next. If you would like to find out more about the project, please follow the link to the website: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/fromthethamestoeternity
'If Stone Could Speak' is a cultural events programme produced by URBAN LEARNERS, about stone, craft, belonging and its story in the City of London. It explores the cultural and historical value of stone, and the role natural stone can play in creating a more sustainable built environment
The City Stone Map trail explores the ever-changing City of London, tracing the City’s stone material history from its Roman foundations to contemporary buildings.
The Map will be available to collect at the Day of Craft, as well as the City Information Centre, and also online.
Artisan crafts, alongside stonemasonry, are also important in maintaining the heritage of cities and more sustainable environments.
This programme highlights crafts historically associated in and surrounding St Paul’s Cathedral, one of the most iconic and historic buildings in the UK, with a legacy of faith, architecture, and craftmanship stretching back over 345 years.
The care and conservation, and therefore traditional heritage skills, are vital in maintaining the stonework, structure and finishes that have stood the test of time. The Cathedral is committed to preserving traditional heritage skills (including stonemasonry) and passing them onto future generations.
Heritage skills needed to conserve stone buildings are highlighted through activities including stone carving and sketching.
The trades and associated crafts that historically took place around the Cathedral included textiles, publishing and bookselling in Paternoster, and printing in nearby Fleet Street. The Day of Craft celebrates this heritage through activities including weaving bookmarks, and paper sculpting.
The story of Temple Bar is one of reuse, longevity and heritage, thereby complementing the From Thames to Eternity project and its central ethos’ of Sustainable Life Cycles and ‘Belonging’.
Temple Bar was once a gate way marking the boundary between the City of London and Westminster and named after the nearby Temple area. Today, this Sir Christopher Wren designed stone gateway marks the entrance to Paternoster Square from St Paul’s Churchyard and is home to the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects.
It has been ‘saved’ or rebuilt twice, once in the late 1800s by the socialites Valerie and Henry Meux in their Hertfordshire estate, and then by the Temple Bar Trust formed in the 1970s to rescue it from ruin, and who secured a site for it in Paternoster Square where it was reconstructed in 2004.
The Day of Craft's indoor activities take place at Temple Bar, including the historic Temple Bar Chamber with stunning views of St Paul’s Cathedral’s iconic dome.
Taking place in two nearby locations, the Day of Craft includes a variety of bookable activities. You are welcome to sign up for more than one.
ST PAUL’S CHURCHYARD
EC4M 8AD (What3Words: curry.score.tiger)
Stone Carving: bookable session at 1pm.
Stone Rubbings: drop-in sessions 10:30 - 4pm.
Sketching Stone English Baroque!: drop-in sessions 10:30 - 4pm.
TEMPLE BAR
2 Paternoster Sq, EC4M 7DX (What3Words: tables.rotate.prom)
Craft activities including paper sculpting, weaving and making stone charms: bookable sessions at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm.
