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    This document discusses various types of stone used in building construction in London and their properties. It provides details on different stone quarries and examples of buildings that used stone from those quarries. Some key points: - It discusses stones from quarries like Anston, Bath, Portland, and Whitby that were used in buildings in and around London. - The North Anston stone from Yorkshire was a yellowish brown limestone used in structures like the Museum of Practical Geology in London. However, it decayed quickly in the New Hall and Library at Lincoln's Inn. - Different types of stone from the Mansfield quarries included red Mansfield stone, white Mansfield stone, and yellow Bolsover

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    This document discusses various types of stone used in building construction in London and their properties. It provides details on different stone quarries and examples of buildings that used stone from those quarries. Some key points: - It discusses stones from quarries like Anston, Bath, Portland, and Whitby that were used in buildings in and around London. - The North Anston stone from Yorkshire was a yellowish brown limestone used in structures like the Museum of Practical Geology in London. However, it decayed quickly in the New Hall and Library at Lincoln's Inn. - Different types of stone from the Mansfield quarries included red Mansfield stone, white Mansfield stone, and yellow Bolsover

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    This document discusses various types of stone used in building construction in London and their properties. It provides details on different stone quarries and examples of buildings that used stone from those quarries. Some key points: - It discusses stones from quarries like Anston, Bath, Portland, and Whitby that were used in buildings in and around London. - The North Anston stone from Yorkshire was a yellowish brown limestone used in structures like the Museum of Practical Geology in London. However, it decayed quickly in the New Hall and Library at Lincoln's Inn. - Different types of stone from the Mansfield quarries included red Mansfield stone, white Mansfield stone, and yellow Bolsover

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    472 TIIHOIIY OF ARCHITECTUIIE. Hook II.

    IG'JCc In the year 1858, the presnt Cflitor contrihuted to tlie i?//7<'r J"/rj'n/(pp. 632-S)
    a li-t of the UuUding Stonet nsci exlernnlly in and iicar the 3Titrnpnlis, nith the nam's and
    (kites of er.'ction of the huildiiigs in which they had heen use.'. 'I'liis li^t cannot he liere
    inserted, l)iit tlie folhjwinjr are among the stones named
    :
    Anston, Auhigny, Biith,
    Uramley Fall, Hioomhill, Cadeby. Caen, Craigleith, Godstone, Great Barrinu'ton, Hare-
    liill, Kentish rag, Yorksiiirt! stone. Ketton. Portland Priidliolme or Prudham, lleigale,
    Roclie Ai)hey. Swanase or Piirheck, mimI Whitby (Ei/ton Quarries) stones besides
    (Granite, and Flint. The paper by E. J. Tarver, on The Architecture
    of
    London Streets,
    read May
    10, 1887, at tlie Society of Arts, is also applicable.
    \666a. Tlie North Anston stone of Yorkshire, not mentioned in tlie preceding liepnrt,
    belongs to the magnesian limestone formation, and is of a yellowish brown colour. As i x-
    amples of its use we point to the Museum of Practical Geology in .lermyn Street, I'al! Mall,
    in the fa(;ad( s of wl)ich thee is scarcely a l)ad stone to be seen. Ihis well conceived struc-
    ture was erected from tlie design of James Pennethorne during the years I8.'!7 to 1848.
    At the New Hall and Library, Lincoln's Inn, designed
    184,'5-45 l)y P. Hardwick, R.A.,
    this stone is in a lamentable state of decay, occasioned (as is reported in tlie discussion
    oa G. K. Hurnell's paper. On Build'nii Stones, t., read at the Society of Arts in 1860),
    hy
    the use of two jiarticular beds, the blocks of wliich were ui a state of decay he'bre they le-'t
    the quarry, and supposed to have heen selected by the builder as yielding him the best
    profit, 'i'he labour upon Anston stone is intermediate between Yorkshire and Portland
    stones: it can be obtained of any required dimensions. The office of the Amicable Life
    Assurance Comiiany, in Fleet Street, was erected 1843, with tlie Mansfield Woodhouse or
    Bolsover stone, in the facade of whieii there is scarcely any trace of decay.
    1666e. From the Mansfield quarries are now sent up the red Mansfield stone, the white
    INIansfield stone, and the yellow magnesian or Bolsover limestone The former is mucli
    introduced for colonnettes, short shafts, and liands in coloured coursed ashlar work. F'or
    similar decorative work, the following stones have heen used (186,5)
    at the new offices of
    tlie Crown Assurance Company in Fleet Street; namely, I'ortland stone in tl.-e piers and
    caps
    ; Forest of Dean, red Mansfield, and blue Warwick, in other portions of the front
    ;
    and Sicilian marble over the arches.
    1666/'
    In consequence of the reintroduction of Portland stone of late years, we would refer,
    in addition to what has been statid on p. 467, as to the quarries of Portland stone, to the
    article Lithologj/, written hy the late C. H. Smith, and pulilished in the 'J 'ram act Ions of
    the Institute of Britisli Architects, 1842. Also to a report, published in the Builder of
    186.'?,
    p. 8.59, by F. A. Abel, being the result of his examination into the comparative
    (jualities and fitness for building purposes, of samples of stone from difTerent (juarries,
    and made under the direction of the Inspector General of Fortifications.
    1666p. These results "show that all the superior descriptions of
    '
    whit bed
    '
    stone
    combine strength and compactness in a considerably higher degree than the varieties of
    *
    base-bed' stone. Some kinds of the
    '
    wliit-bed
    '
    stone, however (i.e, tho^e from the New
    Maggot and Inmosthay quarries), though ranking witli the best as regards strength, ex-
    liibil a greater degree of jioros ty. Again, othi r
    '
    whit-bed
    '
    stones (from Old Maggot,
    Waycroft, and Independent quarries) exhibit but little sujieriority, in point either of
    strength or compactness, over the generality of the
    '
    base-bed
    '
    stones, and are, indeed,
    inferior to the best
    '
    base-bed
    '
    variety."
    1666A. "The 'base-hed' stones are, undoubtedly, more generally uniform in structure
    tlian those of the
    '
    whit-bed;
    '
    this being mainly due to the comparative freedom of the
    former from distinct petrifactions. Though such petrifactions were sliown, by the results
    ol experiments, to imjiart, in many instances, great additional strength to the stone, they
    fu'quently give rise hy their existence to cavities sometimes of considerable size, which
    not only serve to weaken those particular portions of the stone, but may also, if they exist
    in jiroximity to exposed surfaces of a block of stone, promo'e its partial disintegration by
    the action of frost. Greater care i.s, therefore, unquestionably required in the selection
    of' whit-bed
    '
    stone than need be employed in the case of all the better varieties of 'base-
    bed
    '
    stone." The results of my exjieriments lead me to the following conclusions regarding
    tlie
    comiiarative merits of the various descriptions of Portland stone in question, for
    building purposes:

    "
    For External work, in the order of tlieir merit
    :
    I. Stone from War Department
    quarry, Vern Hill; and-wliit bed ' stone, Adn.iralty quarry.
    1 1,
    '
    Whit-bed
    '
    stone. New Maggot quarry ;
    '
    base bed
    '
    stone. Admiralty quarry (this
    may be considered quite equal in quality to 'whit-bed' stone); and 'wiiit-bed' stone, In-
    mo.sthay quarry (particularly adajited from its texture and uniformity forornamental work ).
    III.' Whit-bed
    '
    stone. Old i\Iaggot quarry : a marked LI ; and b marked IT and 1
    F-.
    'I'he 'roach
    '
    stone, from War De])artment <]uarry, is an invaluable stone for external work
    in localities where any considerable strength and power of resisting mechanical wear are

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