BUILDING STONES
Chalk (with Flints) Upper Cretaceous Chalk This is a very fine grained limestone ranging fromwhite to grey in colour. It is sometimes termed Clunch, but its best known varieties are probably the Totterhoe (Beds), Burwell (Cambs) and Beer (Devon) stones. Beer stones have been widely used for intricately carved internal decorative stone work and vaulting. Both have been extensively used in Britain’s cathedrals e.g Peterborough, Ely and Exeter, and locally in houses and in churches (e.g Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire).
Caen Stone Middle Jurassic
This French Limestone is the only ‘foreign’ stone to figure prominently in the early building stone history of Britain. It was extensively used inmany of the larger historic buildings in south-east Britain dating from the time of the Norman Conquest. The limestone is very pale yellow-white, fine evenly grained and non oolitic. Its widespread use initially stemmed from the location of the quarries along the River Orne, near Caen in Normandy, providing ready access to the coast. Thismade shipment by boat to England easier, and therefore cheaper, than the overland transportation of most of our indigenous stones.
Dover Castle
Caen Stone
Exeter Cathedral
Chalk with flints
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Chalk Hill B9760G
H8170W
C6320M
B6740N
Old EnglishWhite
Hudson Bay
SD
SX | SD
SX | SD
SX
SX | SD
SD
B4840G
X6220L
P9331G
Dark Spice Z7070K
C2460Y
Y8121T
SX
SX
SD | SX
SX
SX
SX
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