Lucy Churchill’s CV
Museums: (late 1980s)
I began my career in museums and galleries – The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The V&A’s Museum of Childhood, The British Museum, and The Crafts Council in London.
Bespoke Carving Trade: (1990s)
I retrained in Historic Stonecarving at The City & Guilds School of Art and then worked with the best stonecarving and lettercutting workshops in England – Dick Reid’s Workshop, York, Richard Kindersley, London, Rattee & Ketts and The Carving Workshop in Cambridge.
Prestigious projects including; St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle, Lord Rothschild’s marble fireplaces at Spencer House London, York Minster, Ely Cathedral, the Tibetan Peace Garden at The Imperial War Museum London, The Peace Garden Sheffield, and Corpus Christi College Cambridge.
Freelance Stonecarver: (2000 -)
In 2003 I established a business creating privately commissioned memorial sculpture.
I am open to sculpture and architecture projects – contact me to discuss possibilities.
Stonecarving Tutor: (2007 – )
I run platinum award-winning Stone Carving Workshops in my studio in York.
Watch on TV & YouTube:
You can watch me discuss my Tudor research and my sculpture –
- Figure of a Woman. The creation of a hospice sculpture, 2017
- Channel 4’s Time Team. Season 19, Episode 7: Earl’s Colene Priory, Essex, 2011
- Channel 5’s documentary ‘The Fall of Anne Boleyn’ with Tracy Borman, 2020
- ‘Inside Hever’ – interview with Dr Owen Emmerson for Friends of Hever Castle (members only) (May 2021)
- Interview with Claire Ridgeway for The Tudor Society (members only) (May 2021)
- On the Tudor Trail podcast ‘The Most Happy Medal’, ‘All Things Tudor Queens and Consorts’, 2021
- Inside the Tudor Wardrobe interview with Rachel McNeil
- PechaKucha Presentation: ‘Made of Stone’ (live audience, 6 minutes 40 seconds), 2015.
- YouTube videos of sculpture projects-in-progress
Publications, Articles & Book References
- ‘A re-appraisal of the iconography of the choir screen at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge’ Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn’s choir screen decoded: Oxford University Press Journals- Notes and Queries (2014) 61(2):204-206
- ‘King’s College Chapel 1515-2015: Art, Music and Religion in Cambridge’
- ‘What did Anne Boleyn really look like?’ Huffington Post article co-authored with Susan Bordo




