{"id":527044,"date":"2026-07-15T09:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:06:14","slug":"york-minster-makes-grotesque-of-its-master-stonemason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527044\/","title":{"rendered":"York Minster makes grotesque of its master stonemason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elements which represent parts of David&#8217;s life have been included in the carving, including a pair of divider calipers, a daffodil representing his Welsh heritage and the face of his labrador, Poppy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stonemason Martin Coward, who worked on it, said: &#8220;I was able to come up with a design, thinking about his attributes and what it would read like from a distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was something I wanted to do because I wanted to really show my appreciation for all his work that he has done on the building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David began working at the Minster in 1980 and was part of the team who helped repair the building<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-28112373\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> following a fire there in 1984<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was quite a traumatic night, it was surreal,&#8221; said David.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The next day people were in tears and very upset, but as craftsmen, the first thing we thought was &#8216;let&#8217;s put it back, let&#8217;s rebuild it&#8217;. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elements which represent parts of David&#8217;s life have been included in the carving, including a pair of divider&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-527044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}