Queen's stonemasonry firm fails

摘要

One of the UK's leading stonemasonry contractors. Cathedral Works Organisation, has collapsed into administration. Worthing-based insolvency specialist IRL confirmed this week it had been appointed as administrator to 50-year-old stonemasonry firm Cathedral Works Organisation (CWO), which is known for working for the royal family at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. The £10m-turnover firm has also worked on several ecclesiastical buildings, as well as repairing London's Monument sculpture. CWO was founded in 1965 and operates out of Chichester where it has advanced production facilities, including stone cutting, turning and handling equipment.