Coniston stonecraft workshops are perched on the slopes of ‘Coniston Old Man’ on each side of us run ‘becks’ taking the mountain rain to Coniston water. Church beck powers the small hydro electric station that provides all our power needs, and mines beck is used to cool all our cutting and polishing machines (removing our need for oil completely).
We source our stone from local quarries never more than a dozen miles away, we do not use cheap Brazilian or Chinese slate like many of our competitors, it’s just not the way we work (and it’s nowhere near as good).
If you’re visiting the lakes pop in to our store (it’s a shed really) at the front of the workshops and see for yourself our products in their beautiful natural environment.