AN Oxford stonemason whose lasting legacy can be seen around the city has died.
Anthony Walker, who was 78, died at home in Marston after a long illness.
During his career he was responsible for building and restoring many of Oxford’s most famous buildings, including Wadham College, Tom Tower and Wolsey Tower in Christ Church, the Clarendon Building, the Sheldonian Theatre and New College.
He was born in Toot Baldon and was one of the first pupils to attend the then new Sandhills Primary School, in Headington, in 1940.
Mr Walker took up a five-year apprenticeship with construction firm Joslins, which was later taken over by Benfield and Loxley, after disliking an apprenticeship at the Pressed Steel car factory.
He worked as foreman and then contracts manager at Symm and Co Stonemasons, later known as Axtell Perry Symm, in Osney Mead, until he retired in 1995.
There is a carving of Mr Walker’s head in Christ Church, to mark the work he carried out in the city.
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