Limestone – Page 6 – Stone Library

Guiting Limestone

<image> Stone Name Locality for past extraction of this stone (from Building Stones of England English Heritage – excel file) Cleeve Hill Oolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/); Crickley Oncolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/); Devil’s Chimney Oolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/); Fiddlers Elbow Limestone Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/); Frocester Hill Oolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/); Lower Freestone Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);…

Intro: Doulting Limstone (A5)

A5 <stone name> Reference A5 NAME Doulting TYPE Limestone GEOLOGY Jurassic. Inferior Oolite COUNTY Somerset COLOUR Cream/brown TEXTURE Fine to coarse grained, with fragments of sea lilies BLOCK SIZE LXBXH (mm) 600-750mm depth on bed SUITABILITY Ashlar, copings, dressings and walling USES (1) All Saints Russian Orthodox Church, London USES (2) Hornimans Museum, Forest Hill,…

Limestone

Magnesian Limestone

Magnesian Limestone <NOTE: CONTENTS ARE BETA VERSION – SUBJECT TO FACT CHECK AND VERIFICATION> Geological Formation of Magnesian Limestone Magnesian limestone, also known as dolomitic limestone, is a sedimentary rock formed during the Permian period between 299 and 251 million years ago. It was formed from the accumulation of sedimentary particles on the bed of…