Carving on show at Sandy Park

By Mark Stevens
10/2/17

Visitors to Sandy Park this Sunday will be able to get a glimpse of Exeter’s future history when a new Chiefs head carving goes on show at the stadium.

In what is an extensive project on Exeter Cathedral’s East Gable, work has been going on for a number of months to address parts of the stonework that need replacing or re-conditioning.

And part of the project has been to replace four corbel stones, all of which are to now have a new look moving forward.

As Clerk of Works, Chris Sampson, explains: “The project will see us replace something like 350 stones, four of which have been identified as corbel stones. With that in mind, we came up with ideas and a theme of how we would replace them and in the end we split it into four categories, representing the world, the UK, the City of Exeter and the Cathedral itself.

“And in terms of the City we have decided on the Exeter Chiefs club emblem because we feel they have done so much in recent years to really put Exeter on the map, not just in this country, but across Europe and further afield.”

The new Chiefs carving was hand produced out of Salcombe Stone by stonemason Anna Steinmetzer, who said it took a week to design out of clay and a further week to carve into stone.