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# The stonemason who works in centuries
- URL: https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/podcast/ep-14-the-stonemason-who-works-in-centuries/
- Published: 2026-08-14T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T20:11:46.000Z
- Description: with Ellen Marsh · 1h 04m
- Author: Enova Studio
- Tags: #podcast

Ellen Marsh is a banker mason at Wells, nineteen years into the same building. I went to ask her about patience and came away with a sentence that has reorganised how I think about my own desk.

> You are not building it. You are keeping it. Nobody hands you a finished cathedral and nobody takes one off you either.  
> Ellen Marsh

## In this episode

1. 03:40 Why a banker mason never signs the stone, and why that is not modesty.
2. 11:15 The moulding that took two days and will never be looked at directly.
3. 24:02 On working in a cold room from October to March.
4. 38:50 What she would do differently with forty more years.
5. 51:30 The apprentice question, and who pays for the first winter.

## Mentioned

- *The Wheelwright's Shop* by George Sturt
- The Heritage Crafts Association red list of endangered crafts
- The chapter house record, now in the cathedral archive

Recorded in the banker shop at Wells, with a compressor running two doors down.

[What the stonemason saidNineteen years on one cathedral, and one sentence that reorganised how I think about a desk.Clara Whitfield](https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/what-the-stonemason-said/)