Using the finest crushed portland stone, we mould our piercaps in a variety of colours . A perennial favorite is always the Portland range which includes Natural (off-white), Portland Grey (light grey), Buff (bath/yellow) and standard grey.

It’s not only in colour that we give our customers a choice – we also manufacture our pier caps in various shapes and sizes.

Whilst piercaps were once only available in the classic flat-top shape, you can now also choose from pyramid-shaped ones and of course, the ever-popular range with spheres fitted on top.

All these styles are available in a wide range of sizes to suit your design of gatepost, driveway or garden walls.

Pier caps are the square shaped stones that are used to cap piers or gate pillars. The piers might be of brick, stone or stucco. The pier cap can be a cap on its own, or it can be used as a base for a ball or sphere finial, a ‘pineapple’ or another feature to mount on.

Pier caps are used to protect the pier from becoming weather damaged, as well as to be visually pleasing to the eye.

Our pier caps are normally manufactured to be wider than the pier they fit. This is to ensure that rainwater is shed away from the pier rather than running down it and causing dampness. The amount of extra width depends on the individual design, but approximately 50mm on all four sides at the bottom edge is usual. The overall width might exceed this, depending on the particular design.

Our most popular pier caps have a flat top which enables them to be built up by adding smaller pier caps or a finial on top to suit your requirments. Many customers also buy our matching coping stones to give a uniform look to their project.

Our pier caps (also often referred to as pillar caps) and coping stones make an excellent alternative to quarried stone to finish off a garden wall or gateway building project.

With over twenty standard pier cap sizes to choose from, in a range of styles and colours, we’re sure to have a pier cap to suit your project but if you don’t see what you want, please contact us to discuss making custom sizes.

Video of part of our range of pier caps and coping stones

You can choose from flat topped or peaked styles, with or without spheres fitted, in a choice of nine sizes with either flat or more decorative sides.

As always, you can choose from Buff, Portland or Grey colourways and of course we can make up custom sizes to suit your project if needed.

pier caps

For example, we offer a standard or twice-weathered finish.

In coping stone colours we offer the choice of Buff (yellow) Portland (white) or Grey.

Regarding styles, we offer a choice of flat or pitched top styles in a range of widths and lengths. We also make curved copings, corner copings and a range of decorative coping stones.

Besides the standard sizes, we are able to manufacture our coping stones in custom sizes to suit your particular building project.

coping stones

We produce a wide variety of wall and pillar caps available in sizes, finishes and edge details to fit the requirements of the architect or landscape designer. A small selection of types and sizes are shown here.

For full details of our range, please see our products page.

Flat Pillar Cap

Pillar Cap With Peak

Pillar Cap With Ball

Flat Sided Pillar Cap

Pillar Caps

The use of a combination of some 745 bespoke and thousands of standard cast stone products has given the Nova Building in Bournemouth the impact and visual appeal necessary for a prime site in the town at an affordable cost. The mixed-use building, erected on the former C&A site, utilises almost every available metre, resulting in a complex and challenging shape. The focal point is a tower above the main entrance with a rebated ‘panel’ at parapet level, which provides decorative appeal in an art deco style to match nearby existing buildings, such as the 1930’s Maples building. A wide range of cast stone products were employed including pier caps pillar caps and coping stones.

A £78M extension to London’s Natural History Museum featuring the largest sprayed concrete curved wall in Europe opens this week.

Concrete sprayed onto an expanded metal mesh was used for the central “cocoon” of the extension. The cocoon houses 17M entomology specimens and 3M botany specimens in 3.3km of cabinets.

The construction method was chosen as it reduced the cost of constructing the 60m-long, 12m-wide and eight storey high amorphous shape.

“We considered steel, precasting concrete offsite and insitu concrete but each steel mullion, precast panel or piece of formwork would have been different as there is no repetition,” said Arup associate director Ed Newman-Sanders.

See, concrete is good for lots more than making pier caps and coping stones!

Chief Executive Martin Clarke said: “We are pleased to catalogue the successes of our member companies in this latest report. Despite the enormous difficulties placed on our members in the pre-cast concrete industry. We are determined to maintain the pace of improvement in key areas such as safety and sustainability.

“A healthy precast manufacturing base is key to the country’s future housing and infrastructure delivery programme. We are privileged to represent the best companies in our field and all staff look forward to the challenges ahead.”