• THROVGH THE AGES • E13 EJ^ E13 EJZl BIS Era • ElE EJH] ElEl EJa BIE] Era • DECEMBER. 1923 "The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young; The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, And its soul, full of music, breaks forth on the air When the song of the angels is sung." —^PHILLIPS BROOKS p EJT] ElS EJB El^ EJZl E13 D EJt] Era Bia Era C5^ i Eia Era ELEJ Era E13 Era D Eia Era E13 Bra ElEl EJB cS VOL.1 DECEMBER. 1923 NO. CONTENTS PAGE SOUTHWESTERN TRANSEPT. ELY CATHEDRAL . Frontispiece MARBLES OF GREAT BRITAIN 3 A LIST OF THE WORLD'S MARBLES 5 THE SEARCH FOR MARBLE QUARRIES 8 A WESTERN POST OFFICE 12 A MONUMENT TO WOMEN 13 STORE FRONTS AND INTERIORS OF MARBLE 17 UTAH'S FINE UNIVERSITY 24 NORMAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND 26 THE MARYLAND INSTITUTE 33 A MODERN HIGH SCHOOL 37 STRENGTH AND DURABILITY OF MARBLE 40 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY 42 Published Monthly by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MARBLE DEALERS GAY AND WATF.R STREETS. BALTIMORE. MD. Executive Offices: 242 ROCKEFELLER BurLDiNC, CLEVELAND. OHIO Application for Second-Class Mailing Privilege has been filed at Baltimore. Md. Subscription Price $3.00 per year Single C^opies 35 cents Copyright. 1923. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MARBLE DEALERS Photograph from E. H. Glidden. Architect. Balto.. Md. Southwestern Transept. Ely Cathedral A Monthly Magazine devoted to the uses of Marble - its universal adaptability, beauty, permanency and economy CH/a VOL. 1 DECEMBER. 1923 NO. 8 MARBLES OF GREAT BRITAIN r I 'HE British Isles abound with marbles way of the complete development of the I of many varieties. Most of these ha\ e local quarries has been the excessi\e freight been worked for a long time, and are rates. It cost more (in IQOQ) to bring marble quarried in quantities sufficient to meet all in block from either Derbyshire or Devon• ordinary needs. One exception is a good shire to London than from either Italy or grade of white marble, which is hardly to be Belgium. The trade has been in the hands of found in all of Britain. Belgian and French firms, who naturally We find many references to the marbles of recommend the stocks which they either England in the writings of some of the old control or have on hand. Still another ob• authors. Hollingshead. in 1577' spoke of the stacle to SNStematic development has been many marbles of Staffordshire. Hutchings. the backwardness of the British owners in in 1724. said that several kinds of marbles of employing modern methods and machinery, a coarse texture, blue. red. spotted and gra\' as we know them in this country. (especially the gray), were fonnerly dug in The chief areas of marble production in Purbeck. Polwhele speaks of twenty-four Britain are Devonshire. Derbyshire and varieties of Devon, and Sir Henry de la Staffordshire in England; Sutherlandshire Beche also mentions the gray marbles spe• and the western Hebrides in Scotland; and cifically. GalNxay and Kilkenny in Ireland. British marbles have not been worked as Devonshire marbles are distinguished in assiduously as they might have been. This is particular by their beauty. They vary from due to the competition of the nearby French light pink and yellow to dark gray, almost and Belgium marbles. There are quite a black. Some of the red stones possess great number of extensive deposits that present luster. .Among the places noted for their stones of good quality and fine appearance, special marbles are Ippleton and Silverleigh but since no heavy stocks are carried on (gray with red streaks); Stonycombe (yel• hand for immediate delivery in England, the low) ; Ashburton and Chudleigh (gray); Rad• custom has prevailed of specifying imported ford (red) and Plymouth (red, gray and marble, which can be supplied in quicker fossil). Primitive methods, such as blasting, time. Another thing that has stood in the are resorted to in extracting the stone. The THROVGH THE AGES consequent shattering has given to these eral shades of green marbles that have come marbles a reputation for unsoundness. into general use of late years. These are of In Derbyshire, there are found at Works- serpentinous formation, as are the red and worth creamy white and medium gray blocks green varieties near Lizard Point, in Corn• of large sizes, often twenty tons or over. wall, and the greenish-brown at Polyphant. Dark gray fossil is also gotten from there, From Harehope, in Durham, comes a while black marble comes from near Ash- dark gray fossil marble of attractive mark• ford, as does also the kind known as Rose• ings; and a light green shell marble is quar• wood. Some of these marbles have a very ried near Swanage. Other production cen• close texture and are highly non-absorbent, ters of Great Britain are found at Suther- landshire (white), Lancashire (gray-white), as a consequence of which they are especi• Somerset (dark-gray), Sussex (blue-gray), ally suitable for exteriors because of their Beaumaris (brown-veined), and Swanage superior resistance to smoky atmospheres. (blue-gray shell). In the front of Moot Hall. Worksworth, there are three panels of Hopton-Wood mar• in Ireland, in County Cork, is quarried ble dating from 1818 in which the details of the reddish and brownish marbles so exten• the carving are as clear as when first exe• sively used in Great Britain, the Cork or cuted. These marbles are also eminently Victoria Red being especially popular. Kil• suited for interior decoration since pleasing kenny blacks and fossils find a ready market and are much used locally, as are several contrasts may be secured between the light other varieties from the same section. At and dark varieties, although the surfaces Connemara are seen the green serpentines will not take a brilliant polish. that compare favorably with any of this In Derbyshire and Staffordshire, at Fauld, type in the world. These have found their are found deposits of Alabaster, worked way to the United States in considerable mostly for the manufacture of plaster of quantities. The best quarries are at Recess, paris, although sizable sound blocks are set in County Galway, though other workings aside from time to time for decorative pur• are at Streamstown and Lissoughter. Black poses. marble is also found in County Galway. At lona and Tiree are to be found the sev• Photograph from E. H Gliddcn. Architect, Balto . Md. Lichfield Cathedral from Minster Pool. [4 THROVGH THE AGES A LIST OF THE WORLD'S MARBLES % J- J- MCCLYMONT Note—In our May issue. Mr. McClymont proposed, for the sake of convenience, to divide the different marbles into four groups. These arbitrary groupings were a.s follows: (jRoup A — Any marble or GROUP B — Any marble or GROUP C — Any marble or stone sold to the trade in fair- GROUP D—A\1I marble, stone stone sold to the trade in slabs stone that cannot be sold as and so-called serpentine mar• sized slabs or blocks of com• or blocks of fair or medium sound but contains a mini• mercial size, rectangularshape bles, and Onyx, which, by size, generally rectangular mum amount of natural de• their peculiar formation are and guaranteed by the seller shape, guaranteed to be sound fects, such as dry seams, old to be sound, free from natural known to be fragile, such as and free from natural defects, fractures, partially or com• Breccias and nearly all highly defects, that can be finished the finishing of which, be• pletely healed surface voids, at a minimum cost, and sold colored marbles and .serpen• cause of texture, the size of etc.. to be treated by the tines, and that are sold to the to the consumer as sound slabs, the .shape and size of manufacturer in the most ap• marble. trade in irregular shaped blocks, is somewhat more ex- proved manner, reinforced blocks or slabs without a pensi ve tban rhose in Group .\. where nece.s.sary by liners on guarantee as to their sound• back or metal inlays and sold ness, treated by the manu• to the consumer as semi- facturer in the most approved sound marble. manner, reinforced where nec• essary by liners on back or metal inlays and sold to the consumer as unsound marble. Breche De Smyrne—Group D Breche Medoux—Group D (Somewhat similar to Breche Di Smyrne.) Medoux Quarries, near Bagneres De Bi• Quarries near Bagneres. De Bigorre, gorre. Basses Pyrenees. France. Hautes, Pyrenees. France. Deep orange filler with fragments of black Reddish brown filler, with fragment of white, gray, yellow and brown. (Watson) white, pink and fawn. (Watson) Takes high polish. Takes high polish. Breche De Waulsort or Breche Francais— Breche Noir De Baudean or Breche Noire— Group D Group C Hastieres Quarry, near Namur. Belgium. Baudean Quarries, Hautes Pyrenees, Reddish brown filler with fragments of France. black, pink and white. Yellow filler with dark blue-gray frag• Some of the fragments are veined. (Wat• ments marked with fine colored veins. son) (Watson) Breche Du Nord—Group D Breche Noire Landelies Quarry, Namur. Belgium. Same as Breche Noir Baudean. Reddish brown with brownish black, ight pink, and white fragments. (Watson) Takes high polish. Breche Opal—Group D Stazzema Quarry, Seravezza, Italy. Breche Francais—See Breche De Waulsort Cream-white background with various Breche Jaune De Baudean—Group D light colored and purple fragments. Baudean Quarries. Hautes Pyrenees, Takes high polish. France. Dark yellow filler with angular fragments Breche Opal Flurie—Same as Breche Opal of white, black and red. (Watson) Takes high polish. Breche Pavonazzo—See Pavonazzo [5] THROVGH THE AGES Breche Porter—Group D British Columbia Marble Deposits Quarry at Bagneres De Luchon.