Judah is an amazing writer. She weaves stone through human history showing us how we gave different types of stone the power of royalty and worship. She breaks down the history of each individual stone and how it’s impacted the human race through history. We interweave them in our mythology. They become a medium for our artwork generation after generation. Our advancement as a species came about by forging stone tools even now the Industrial Revolution was possible because of coal. Cathedral Camps was a charity which used young volunteers, known as Cathedral Campers, to help with the conservation of cathedrals and churches. The collection has been supplemented with dozens of fragments recovered from various excavations, many from those within the Cloisters and Undercroft in 2014. Stones have been unearthed by the gardeners or recovered from reuse as garden features. Additional fragments, excavation finds and historic miscellanea accumulated in the Treasury Lapidarium to the point where navigability of the space became restricted.

With international inspiration, not least from France, the kings of Denmark have used statues to symbolise their power for centuries on the facades and in the gardens of their palaces, and in the towns and cities of Denmark, including imposing equestrian statues, beautiful goddesses and bombastic trophies. This book is more people-centric than stone centric. Each essay isn't actually about a stone, it's a niche tale about people with a connection to the stone in question, and it's the people that the essay focuses on. This in itself isn't a failing, but combined with the overuse of minor historical details and dates and bulky context (which, surely could have been reduced down) it is quite difficult to sift through and actually find any vaguely interesting information.

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Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this audiobook is a beautiful collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared historySeven original baroque groups of statues include the largest monuments: Ecstase of sainte Ludgardis, made by Matthias Bernard Braun, St Francis Xaverius baptising Indians and The Apotheose of St Ignatius of Loyola by Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff, which fell into the river in 1890 and was never recovered.