De Lank Quarry

This is De Lank itself, the working granite quarry on the western edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, where every product and every commission begins. Granite has been worked here for more than 260 years, and the quarry remains in continuous production today, drawing from a single body of stone, the Bodmin Moor granite, that gives De Lank its consistent silver-grey colour and exceptional hardness. These photographs record the work of the quarry: the winning of stone from the face, the splitting and dressing of blocks, and the masons and machinery that turn raw granite into paving, walling, cladding and sculpture. It is the same ground from which the stone for the Eddystone Lighthouse was taken more than 140 years ago, still worked by hand and machine today.