Equipment & Machinery
At Rawcliffe’s of Chorley, we use specialist memorial machinery together with traditional masonry skills to produce, inscribe, shape, polish and restore memorials to a high standard. The videos below show examples of the processes involved in memorial lettering, granite finishing, vase shaping, cleaning and restoration.
Memorial Lettering, Engraving & Inscription Techniques
These videos show the specialist techniques used to create memorial inscriptions, including hand carving, blasting and raised lead lettering. Each process plays an important part in producing clear, lasting and respectful lettering on headstones and memorials.
Hand Carved Memorial Lettering
Automated Sandblasting Process
Hand Carving Granite Detail
Raised Lead Letter Inlay
Granite Memorial Manufacturing, Shaping & Polishing
These videos demonstrate the machinery and finishing methods used to shape, core and polish memorials. From granite polishing to vase shaping, each stage helps achieve the quality finish expected in a professionally made memorial.
Granite Surface Polishing
Precision Stone Coring
Memorial Vase Shaping
Final Memorial Polishing
Memorial Cleaning, Restoration & War Memorial Projects
These videos highlight some of the cleaning and restoration work carried out by Rawcliffe’s of Chorley, including steam cleaning, detail work and larger war memorial restoration projects completed with care and precision.
Steam Cleaning Memorials
Lead Letter Detail Work
Cleckheaton Memorial Restoration
War Memorial Restoration Project