Matthew Wilson, is a renowned Garden and Landscape Designer. Mathew designed the “Welcome to Yorkshire” Garden at Chelsea Flower Show in 2016 that using Procter Cast Stone, won the prestigious “People’s Choice Award”. In this short video Matthew Wilson visits Procter Cast Stone to see the state of the art modern production facility where the cast stone for his award winning garden was designed and manufactured.

This project involved the design, manufacture, supply and installation of a wide range of bespoke architectural features, with the client wanting the highest quality cast stone. In addition, advice was required regarding design details, resulting in moulds for the bespoke cast stone features being expertly made by our own craftsmen. Whether the property in question is a one-off architect-designed house or part of a more extensive residential development, cast stone can play a role in making a property considerably more appealing. Procter Cast Stone are the UK’s leading specialists in the manufacture of individually designed cast stone features to meet specific project requirements.

Procter Cast Stone have made a major investment in a fantastic, state of the art manufacturing facility that combines all the production operations into one building. The new investment includes a computer-controlled batching plant to ensure consistent colour matching and mixing. Also a new integrated and well equipped joinery facility with new machinery for highly accurate mould-making.

Cast Stone Architectural Features for a world-class Equine Facility and House Renovation. This highly prestigious project involved the design, manufacture and supply of a wide range of bespoke architectural features for a new equine facility - one of the largest in Europe - plus bay surrounds, quoins and bespoke portico for a house renovation on the same site.

A great example is the stone structure in the ‘God's Own County – A Garden for Yorkshire’. Inspired by the medieval Great East Window at York Minster, the structure formed the centrepiece of the Matthew Wilson’s colourful garden – which won a silver medal and the ‘People’s Choice’ prestigious award. As some garden designers and others in the industry might have realised, the structure wasn’t in fact crafted from quarried stone, even though it perfectly resembled it, but from cast stone – a process which allows intricate shapes to be created by using a mould filled with a precise matrix of loose materials, before being cured and allowed to set. The cast stone was manufactured by the UK’s leader, Procter Cast Stone, and their sales manager, Simon Tibble, explains how the job came about and how he sees a growing role for cast stone in garden design. http://www.caststoneuk.co.uk/services... “Earlier in the year we were approached by Welcome to Yorkshire to see if we could help with the design and manufacture of the stone structure, plus other features, in their Chelsea garden. We’re based in Garforth, West Yorkshire, so I suppose our location along with renowned expertise in cast stone made us the perfect partner. We were delighted to help, and using only rough sketches as a starting point, we went on to design and manufacture the four turrets, 55 square metres of ashlar walling, the ‘laying down’ window, planters and benches.