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Geology and Building Stones in the East Midlands Graham Lott Geology and building stones in the East Midlands Graham Lott Abstract. The East Midlands has a diverse heritage of stone buildings reflecting the varied character of the regions geological strata. The principal stones used in the buildings of the area are described and identified and placed in their modern stratigraphic context. This very diversity, however, while providing a colourful backdrop to the villages and towns of the area for all to enjoy, presents an increasing problem to those concerned with conserving these structures, as many of the stones are now no longer quarried. With the increasingly rapid expansion and Publications concerned with the building stones of development of our cities, towns and villages, by the an area are often focused on their use in the addition of rather bland, mass-produced brick built archaeology or conservation of historic structures. housing developments, metal clad factories and However, the building stone industry has never been glass-fronted office blocks, the end of a millennium concerned with providing stone solely for is perhaps a particularly suitable time to reflect upon conservation purposes. Today, stone quarrying in the diverse and colourful use of local building the East Midlands area for new building work, such materials in the past. as the Law Courts in Nottingham (Birchover The East Midlands has a distinctive character Stone), town centre developments at Bakewell which is well expressed in the wealth and variety of (Stanton Moor Stone) and the new visitor centre at Southwell Minster (White Mansfield Stone), is still vernacular buildings it has produced over the last an important part of the local economy. millennium, many examples of which still survive. It is evident that locally quarried building stone and A study of building stones necessarily involves not locally produced bricks have played an important only an understanding of the stone and its geology, part in moulding this character. The picturesque but also some knowledge of a building’s history, its and attractive gritstone or limestone cottages of the building methods and local historical context. It is Derbyshire Peak District are familiar to most people quite common to find that stone buildings have been through endless images on calendars and in local restored or extended at different periods in their publications. However, the other counties of the history, sometimes using stone from the original region have equally attractive and perhaps more quarries but in more recent times using stone diverse, though less well publicised, stone built imported from elsewhere. heritages. In broad terms the stone buildings of the East Midlands can be divided into three types. The first This contribution will focus on identifying the includes high-status buildings in which the use of many varieties of local building stone used in the particular building materials was generally not area, their distribution and, where possible, the constrained by proximity to the quarry source or location of their original quarry sources (Fig. 1). By transportation costs; this category principally placing these stones in their modern geological includes larger buildings constructed prior to the context, following the many changes in stratigraphic middle of the 18th century, such as castles, stately nomenclature which have taken place over the last houses, abbeys, cathedrals and larger churches. The few decades, it is possible to avoid perpetuating second comprises smaller vernacular houses, parish some of the misconceptions regarding stone sources churches and smaller industrial buildings such as found in earlier literature. In a study of any aspect of windmills and mine buildings, where local materials the buildings of the area the books in the series The would almost certainly be preferred on cost Buildings of England, particularly the later revised grounds. The third includes larger industrial editions, are essential reading (Pevsner, 1979, 1992, buildings dating from the end of the 18th century 1993; Pevsner and Harris, 1995). and closely related to the development of canal and, Many of the stones described in the following later, the rail networks which markedly increased account would probably not pass the stringent both the variety and availability of stone for building engineering tests required for the very different by dramatically reducing transportation costs. demands of today’s building stone market. Many are Included in this last category are both the factory stones used in limited areas, perhaps only for a few buildings in the new industrial centres and the local houses. However, they have all survived several rapidly expanded housing developments for the centuries of exposure to the elements and, without growing workforces that supported the new the problems of decay caused by modern airborne industries. pollutants, would in many cases probably survive The East Midlands area, which is taken here to another thousand years. arbitrarily include the counties of Derbyshire, MERCIAN GEOLOGIST 2001 15 (2) 97 GRAHAM LOTT . Geological map of the East Midlands, with locations main building stone quarries. Figure 1 98 MERCIAN GEOLOGIST 2001 15 (2) BUILDING STONES IN THE EAST MIDLANDS Leicestershire (including Rutland), Lincolnshire lithologies. The overlying Maplewell Group is (including South Humberside) and dominated by interbedded fine and coarse-grained, Nottinghamshire, has long been a significant tuffaceous volcaniclastic rocks and breccias. producer and exploiter of its indigenous stone Particularly distinctive units within this latter group resources for building purposes. Many of its working are the Whitwick and Bardon Hill intrusive volcanic quarries are still important building stone sources complexes, which include the coarsely crystalline, and exporters in a national context. green and speckled white (quartz-feldspar crystals) Geologically, the East Midlands has a core of Peldar Dacite. mildly metamorphosed Precambrian to Cambrian basement rocks, forming the high ground of Precambrian building stones Charnwood Forest, surrounded and overlain by a series of more or less conformably dipping This relatively small outcrop has one of the most sedimentary rock units, ranging from Early diverse rock successions in the East Midlands area. Carboniferous to Late Cretaceous in age. In Many of the lithologies present are properly Leicestershire and Derbyshire various igneous rocks identifiable only in thin section and their individual have been intruded into this sedimentary cover recognition in local buildings generally requires a during the early Palaeozoic and are now also thorough knowledge of the rock succession. exposed at the surface. The widely contrasting However, it is possible to attribute most of the stones used in the buildings across the East building stone lithologies encountered in and Midlands are a product of this geologically varied around the area to a generic ‘Charnian’ suite of rock rock succession. types. The hard nature of the Charnian metasediments has meant they have principally been used as local building and walling stone and are Precambrian (Charnian) rocks rarely found outside the immediate area of their The rocks of the Charnwood area form a small inlier outcrop. No single lithological unit from this interval of folded late Precambrian metamorphosed has been systematically worked for building stone volcaniclastic rocks – the Charnian Supergroup and a mixture of litho-types from the succession can (Carney, 1999; Carney et al., 2000) cut by commonly be seen in local buildings. Precambrian intrusions of granophyric diorite The Charnian rocks used as building stone exhibit (Markfeldite – South Charnwood Diorite)) and a wide variety of colours, lithologies and textures diorite (North Charnwood Diorite). The geological from off-white to dark grey-green and purple with complexities of the succession are still the subject of micaceous, fine-grained and coarse-grained debate, but for present purposes the interval textures. They have been used in building comprises the lithologically heterogeneous construction since Roman times and can be seen in Blackbrook and Maplewell groups, each of which is the Jewry Wall in Leicester and in the remnants of divided into a number of formations and members Ulverscroft and Grace Dieu priories built in the 12th (Table 1). century (12C). More recently Mount St Bernard The Blackbrook Group, forming the core of the Abbey (19C) and Blackbrook Reservoir (20C) were anticline, is predominantly a metavolcaniclastic constructed using a variety of Charnian lithologies. sequence with breccias, sandstones and finer grained Characteristically these hard intractable rocks are seen in buildings as uncoursed, polygonal, random rubble stone and are rarely shaped or sawn (ashlar) block. Examples of the lithological variations that occur and building styles used are displayed in churches in Leicester (St Mark and St. Nicholas churches), Loughborough, Long Whatton and Belton, and in village housing in Osgathorpe (Plate 1A). The Cambrian Rocks Overlying the Charnian succession are the finer grained lithologies of the Brand Group. The overlying Brand Group was formerly included in the Charnian Supergroup but has recently been reassigned to the Lower Cambrian (Bland, 1994). The succession includes the greywacke sandstones and siltstones of the Swithland Formation which commonly show a metamorphically-induced, coarse slatey cleavage. They can be split along these Table 1. Precambrian stratigraphy and
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