Joseph Hayes (sculptor)

His mother wished him to study for the priesthood but his artistic talent resulted in his being apprenticed to a sculptor in London.

[1] Around 1900 the Scots architect Robert Lorimer was commissioned to design various chimneypieces for the South Kensington Museum in London.

The bulk of the stone and wood carving were created in the Dean Studio and assembled in St Giles over the year 1909/10.

The works involved the chapel, its outer hallway (ante-chapel), and the remodelling of the east entrance.

He was killed on 3 September 1916 at Longueval on the Somme and is buried there at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery plot XII.F.22.