BRITISH AND IRISH STONES UK MAP DIVIDED BY CITIES
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BRITISH AND IRISH STONES LIMESTONES 16 Scoutmoor York stone – Greater Manchester – North West
Britain and Ireland are home to a wide range 1 Baycliff Caulfield - Ulverston, Cumbria - North West 17 Stoke Hall – Grindleford, Derbyshire – East Midlands of stones that can suit any application and satisfy virtually any aesthetic. This diverse 2 Clipsham – Lincolnshire – East Midlands 18 Stanton Moor – Matlock, Derbyshire – East Midlands collection of stunning natural material is readily available and easily accessible. More 3 Ancaster – Lincolnshire – East Midlands 19 Locharbriggs Sandstone – Dumfries, Scotland information is available on request about any of the stones featured, but please note 4 Creeton Silverbed – Lincolnshire – East Midlands 20 Lazonby – Penrith, Cumbria – North West this is a selection and not a complete list. Contact [email protected]. 5 Chicksgrove – Wiltshire – South West 21 Red St Bees – Cumbria – North West
6 Stoke Ground Bath stone – Somerset – South West 22 Mountcharles Sandstone – Co Donegal Ireland
11 7 Hartham Park Bath stone – Wiltshire – South West 23 Hurdcott Green Sandstone – Wiltshire
19 12 8 Portland - Isle of Portland – South West 24 Pennant – Gloucestershire – South West 26 20 27 9 Purbeck – Isle of Purbeck, Dorset – South West 22 21 30 13 29 10 Kentish Rag Stone – Kent – South East QUARTZITE AND GRANITE 1 15 16 14 25 De Lank Granite Cornwall – South West 17 SANDSTONES 26 Silver Donegal Quartzite – Co Donegal Ireland 28 18 11 Hazeldene – Northumberland – North East 3 27 Gold Donegal Quartzite – Co Donegal Ireland 4 12 Darney – Northumberland – North East 2 13 Witton Fell sandstone – North Yorkshire – Yorkshire and the SLATE Humber
24 28 Welsh slate – North Wales - Wales 14 Crosland Hill - Huddersfield, West Yorkshire – Yorkshire and the Humber 7 10 29 Broughton Moor – Cumbria – North West 6 5 23 15 Moselden – Barkisland, West Yorkshire – Yorkshire and the 30 Brandy Craig - Coniston – Cumbria – North West Humber 8 9 25 LIMESTONE LIMESTONE
BAYCLIFF CAULFIELD CLIPSHAM
Baycliff Caulfield Clipsham Ancaster Hard White Ancaster Weatherbed
Creeton Silverbed Chicksgrove Stoke Ground Top Bed Stoke Ground Base Bed
Burlington Stone Stamford Stone ORIGIN ORIGIN Britain, Cumbria Britain, Lincolnshire
APPEARANCE APPEARANCE Buff coloured with light coffee mottling and some Soft pale cream to rich buff colour with some variety small shell content and coarse grained Hartham Park Kentish Ragstone Portland Basebed Portland Whitbed USE USE Internal flooring, internal wall cladding and Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internalrchitectural applications internal flooring, carving, landscaping
PROJECT PROJECT The Guildhall City of London Library and Study Centre, St John’s College Oxford
Portland Roach Purbeck Green Purbeck Downsvein LIMESTONE LIMESTONE
ANCASTER
CREETON SILVERBED CHICKSGROVE
Weatherbed Glebe Stone
ORIGIN Britain, Lincolnshire
Johnston Quarry Group Lovell Stone Group APPEARANCE ORIGIN ORIGIN Two types of Ancaster, Hard White, a creamy Britain, Lincolnshire Britain, Wiltshire white fine to medium grained hard limestone quite consistent in colour and texture. Ancaster APPEARANCE APPEARANCE Weatherbed, mostly buff coloured with blue/grey Beige/Cream limestone with clusters of shell fossil Creamy white in colour with slight greenish tinge inclusions, medium to course grained. and mineral veining. and fine grained USE USE USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, Internal flooring, internal architectural Load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, carving, landscaping applications, carving, internal wall cladding, carving, external paving restorations and new build. PROJECT PROJECT Black Cultural Archives PROJECT Fonthill Abbey, Tisbury Wiltshire Hard White Glebe Stone The Shoot Lodge, Oxon LIMESTONE LIMESTONE
STOKE GROUND BATH STONE
HARTHAM PARK BATH STONE KENTISH RAG STONE
Base Bed Bathstone Group
ORIGIN Britain, Somerset
APPEARANCE Top bed is fine grained and very consistent, pale Lovell Stone Group Gallagher Group cream or buff coloured that mellows to honey ORIGIN ORIGIN colour and has good bed heights. Base Bed is Britain, Corsham Wiltshire Britain, Maidstone, Kent open grained with some shell deposits, light buff/grey colour and hard wearing used for all APPEARANCE APPEARANCE weathering courses Pale cream in colour and weathers well, consistent Hard sandy limestone, grey to blue grey in colour appearance and fine grained USE USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, carving, landscaping Load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, internal flooring, carving, landscaping, memorial, carving worktops PROJECT Pembroke College Cambridge, Liverpool Street PROJECT PROJECT Station London Pembroke College Oxford Marks and Spencer’s Store, Maidstone, Kent Top Bed Bathstone Group LIMESTONE LIMESTONE
PORTLAND PURBECK
Albion Stone Portland Roach
Purbeck Downsvein Haysom Purbeck Stone
Albion Stone Portland Whitbed
ORIGIN ORIGIN Britain, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset Britain, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
APPEARANCE APPEARANCE Creamy white. Appearance varies through three Colours and appearance range from off white, different beds: Basebed, Whitbed and Roach with buffs, and browns, to dark green and blue Roach containing the highest level of fossil depending on the bed, with varying level of fossil
USE USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping internal flooring, carving, landscaping
PROJECT PROJECT British Library Windsor Castle Portland Basebed Albion Stone Purbeck Green Haysom Purbeck Stone SANDSTONE SANDSTONE
HAZELDENE DARNEY
Hazeldene Darney Witton Fell Crosland Hill
Moselden Scoutmoor Stoke Hall Stanton Moor
Hutton Stone Hutton Stone ORIGIN ORIGIN Britain, Northumberland Britain, Northumberland
APPEARANCE APPEARANCE Fine grained sandstone, white to cream and Fine to medium grained, pale gold through light consistent in appearance buff to almost blonde in colour Locharbriggs Lazonby Red St Bees Mountcharles USE USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving landscaping internal flooring, carving landscaping
PROJECT PROJECT Market Street Hotel, Edinburgh Glasgow School of Art Restoration
Hurdcott Green Pennant Mixed Sawn Pennant Blue Sawn SANDSTONE SANDSTONE
WITTON FELL SANDSTONE CROSLAND HILL MOSELDEN SCOUTMOOR YORK STONE
Cumbrian Stone Johnsons Wellfield Marshalls Marshalls ORIGIN ORIGIN ORIGIN ORIGIN Britain, North Yorkshire Britain, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Britain, Barkisland, West Yorkshire Britain, Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester
APPEARANCE APPEARANCE APPEARANCE APPEARANCE Fine to medium grained light buff in colour with Medium to fine grained, light buff with naturally Warm buff to light grey colour with some light Blue grey to brown in colour and very hard pink intrusions and light brown flecks and veins occurring variations which are enhanced by grey crescent banding wearing weathering USE USE USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, External paving, internal flooring, landscaping internal flooring, carving landscaping Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, carving, landscaping elements internal flooring, carving, landscaping PROJECT PROJECT PROJECT Trafalgar Square London Ravenswick cladding PROJECT Whitehall London Birmingham City Library SANDSTONE SANDSTONE
STOKE HALL STANTON MOOR LOCHARBRIGGS SANDSTONE LAZONBY
Marshalls Marshalls Cumbrian Stone Cumbrian Stone ORIGIN ORIGIN ORIGIN ORIGIN Britain, Gindleford, Derbyshire Britain, Matlock, Derbyshire Britain, Dumfries, Scotland Britain, Penrith Cumbria
APPEARANCE APPEARANCE APPEARANCE APPEARANCE Fine to medium grained, buff coloured stone Varied buff-pink coloured stone, medium to Medium grained, varied red to pink in colour with Medium grained, light pink in colour with a high which is quite consistent in colour and texture coarse textured linear black banding and clearly defined bedding/ Quartz content which gives it sparkle in bright lamination structures where clay minerals are conditions, hard wearing and consistent texture USE USE concentrated Load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, Load bearing masonry, cladding, carving, USE carving, landscaping elements landscaping, internal flooring USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping PROJECT PROJECT internal flooring, carving, landscaping Lawsons Quay Lancaster (pitched face walling and Lincoln Square PROJECT cladding) PROJECT Saracens House, Glasgow 19 Basil Street SANDSTONE SANDSTONE
RED ST BEES MOUNTCHARLES SANDSTONE HURDCOTT GREEN SANDSTONE
Cumbrian Stone McMonagle Stone Company Lovell Stone Group ORIGIN ORIGIN ORIGIN Britain, St Bees Head, Cumbria Ireland, Co Donegal Britain, Wiltshire, Barfod Saint Martin
APPEARANCE APPEARANCE APPEARANCE Fine grained, dull red in colour, some veining Buff to brown in colour with some blue tones Pale to mid green stone with some small mottled present and consistent textured lighter areas and a high silica content USE USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, USE Load bearing masonry, cladding, (limited) external internal flooring, landscaping Load bearing masonry, cladding, architectural paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping applications PROJECT PROJECT Domestic residences PROJECT 19 Basil Street Westbury House Dentil cornice and Pediment SANDSTONE QUARTZITE AND GRANITE
PENNANT
Blue Sawn Forest of Dean Stone Firms De Lank Granite Silver Donegal Gold Donegal
ORIGIN Britain, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
APPEARANCE Fine to medium grained, colour ranges from blue to grey, green and through to brown
USE Cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping, all other building applications
PROJECT St Helen’s Place, Leatherseller’s Hall, Apple Superstore Covent Garden Mixed Sawn Forest of Dean Stone Firms QUARTZITE AND GRANITE QUARTZITE AND GRANITE
DE LANK GRANITE SILVER DONEGAL QUARTZITE GOLD DONEGAL QUARTZITE
De Lank Quarry McMonagle Stone McMonagle Stone ORIGIN ORIGIN ORIGIN Britain, Cornwall Ireland, Co Donegal Ireland, Co Donegal
APPEARANCE APPEARANCE APPEARANCE This Granite is silver grey in colour with very even Blend of light and dark greys and silver with Blend of light and dark brown, cream, gold and grained colour and texture flecks of quartz which gives it some sparkle. Much beige to give a warm coloured material with variation in colour flecks of quartz which gives it some sparkle. Much USE variation in colour. Load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, USE internal flooring, landscaping Cladding, external paving, internal flooring, USE landscaping Cladding, external paving, internal flooring, PROJECT landscaping 30 Broadwick Street PROJECT Domestic residences PROJECT Domestic residences SLATE SLATE
WELSH SLATE
Welsh Slate Cwt-y-Bugail Dark Blue Grey Welsh Slate Penrhyn Heather Blue Broughton Moor Penrhyn Heather Blue Welsh Slate
ORIGIN Britain, North Wales
APPEARANCE Four different colours of Welsh Slate recognized: Penrhyn Heather Blue, Penrhyn Heather Red used for roofing and architectural applications and aggregates, Penrhyn Heather Grey used for architectural applications and aggregates; Cwt-y- Bugail Dark Blue Grey – dark blue grey with some white veins used for architectural applications Brandy Craig USE Cladding, roofing, external paving, internal flooring, architectural applications, landscaping
PROJECT Irish Embassy, London roofing Cwt-y-Bugail Dark Blue Grey Welsh Slate SLATE CONTACT US
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Burlington Stone Burlington Stone 02077359995 ORIGIN ORIGIN Britain, Cumbrian Britain, Cumbria [email protected] APPEARANCE APPEARANCE Light to dark green stone often with white veins Silver grey with some light, soft shades and www.szerelmey.com and tonal differences contrasting veins and fossils.
USE USE Cladding, roofing, external paving, internal Cladding, external paving, internal flooring, flooring, landscaping, architectural applications landscaping, architectural applications
PROJECT PROJECT 25 Gresham Street, London louvres Sainsbury Wing The National Gallery Trafalgar Square London