Memorial Masonry

At Wm. Thos. Jones we not only provide traditional monuments, but also provide a service where we work with each client to create a highly individual monument. Based in Kyneton, central Victoria, servicing Bendigo, Ballarat and surrounding areas, but can deliver to anywhere in Australia. Ask about our service.

Bluestone monument using recycled stone supplied by the client. Cast fence was manufactured by the local Kyneton foundary, and the headstone is new bluestone with gum leaves & gum nuts carved into stone, this was done by the yards head stonemason Tim Watts. A 30mm carara tablet is inserted into stone with sandblastered letters.

This family came to me because they were after a firm that would design and manufacture a monument the way they wanted. They found that most companies had brochures of either Chinese or Indian monuments, and everything outside the norm was too difficult.They were pleased to find an established company that was still passing on traditional skills and using local and imported stone. This monument is made of local bluestone with Carrara marble inlayed into the bluestone. The marble carving is oak leaves and acorns, The letters on the marble tablet are sandblasted. The ledger (marble slab laying over grave) has flush lead letters. The surround of the grave is bluestone and the cast iron ribbon rail was manufactured locally.

     
These are a photos of a Floriated Pugin Cross recently completed in this yard and fixed at the Flinders Cemetery. A.W. Pugin was a 19th century architect, who was best known for his designing and refurbishment of Westminister after the fires of the early 1830s. He was associated with the rebirth of Gothic architecture in England at that time. In 1849 he published 31 plates of Floriated designs, of which this is one. His work was heavily associated with the Catholic church and his designs can be seen in many Tasmanian churches. Floriated Pugin Crosses are mainly found in Tasmania, and most were done in the latter part of the 19th century.

     
Headstones at the Woodend Lawn Cemetery

    
This job is fixed at the Franklinford cemetery. The client was obviously Buddhist, and wanted a monument to depict his faith. The client gave us a model of this buddha, who is apparently thinner than the buddhas l imagine. We engaged the services of a local artist Kirsty Williams, she came in an drew the outline on the stone, and to achieve the correct proportions. Kane Vereker, stonemason, worked the shape, marked and cut the letters and fixed it in the cemetery.

Galvin is mintaro slate into a bluestone socket stone. Dunn is bluestone headstone and socket stone.

A Harcourt granite monument with marble heastone with flower container post.
And a rustic stone monument made from stone selected from client's property

Family grave planning for the Future

Bluestone plynth in two pieces with hand cut letters painted black.
Sculpture in polished stainless steel by Russell Petherbridge