John Carline

Finding a quantity of potential work he bought an area of open land in Shrewsbury to use as a mason's yard and this became known as Carline's Field.

[3] In 1790 they built the three arch Montford Bridge over the River Severn under a commission from Thomas Telford completing this in 1794.

In 1790 they built the magnificent St Alkmund's Church in Shrewsbury - still a major landmark with its tall stone spire.

Born in Shrewsbury in 1792 the son of John Carline and Mary Cotton, he became a Freeman of the Company of Masons in 1817.

[6] Born in Shrewsbury in 1799 the second son of John Carline and Mary Cotton he had more formal education but less success.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy 1825 to 1828 but only had one public work of note: the panels on the monument to Sir John Hill in Prees (1826).