"Harder than Steel"

"Harder than Steel"

Architecture, carving, clay, Daily Telegraph building, Fleet Street, gargoyles, London, mason, masonry, medieval cathedrals, medieval methods, modelling, sculptor, sculpture, stone, stonework.

This article from the Canberra Times discusses changing methods of sculpting designs into stone. It distinguishes between recent methods (in 1930) in which designs were modelled onto clay and then copied onto stone or marble by masons, and older medieval methods by which designs were carved directly into the stone. This method, the author claims, was making a comeback, as evidenced by the heads on the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street, London.

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The National Library of Australia: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2354231

The Canberra Times

24 December 1930, p.5

National Library of Australia