Simon Verity in 1997, working on a statue on the western facade of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Upper Manhattan. He and his team spent parts of nine years carving 31 biblical figures ...

Simon Verity, who has died aged 79 ... He made memorials for the notable long-dead, like Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral ... Verity in New York, with his carving of Deborah, 1996 ...

His apprenticeship as a mason was at Wells cathedral in Somerset, working Bath limestone; an early public commission was at Canterbury, carving out the letters that marked the site of Becket’s ...

Simon Verity, who has died aged 79, was a master conjurer of stone. As a sculptor he contributed to cathedrals both old and young, from survivors of the middle ages such as Exeter and Wells to the ...