THE final brick has been added of a three year project to rebuild Durham Cathedral in Lego.

The last brick – a replica of the cathedral’s famous Sanctuary Knocker – was placed by seven-year-old Pearl Richardson, from Newcastle.

Pearl, who won the honour through a prize draw, has placed bricks on previous visits with her twin brother Murray and dad Scott, who is a stonemason at the cathedral’s works yard team.

Durham Cathedral in Lego began on July 2013 to raise funds for Open Treasure, the new state-of-the-art exhibition experience which opened on Saturday (July 23).

The final model has 300,000 bricks and is the largest Lego model ever built by the general public, measuring 3.84 metres long, 1.53 metres wide and 1.7 metres high.

The project has raised £300,000 towards the £10.9 million Open Treasure exhibition.

Gaye Kirby, the cathedral's head of development, said: “Durham Cathedral in Lego has been a brilliant fundraising project, which has attracted thousands of visitors from all over the world to the Cathedral over the last three years. We’ve been overwhelmed by the generosity of our visitors and it has been wonderful to watch the model taking shape.

“Durham Cathedral in Lego has been such an important part of Cathedral life for the last three years, and we hope people continue to visit the model, which will remain on public display once it is finished."