Oolitic Limestone
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- 100, King StreetMain building stone.
- 102, Quay StreetMain building stone.
- 11, Bridge StreetMain building stone, rubble masonry.
- 115 Colmore RowMain building stone.
- 13, Heol Yr OrsafMain building stone.
- 14-16 Hans RoadPorch.
- 160 Queen Victoria StreetCladding on main building. this is a coarse-grained, oolitic limestone, with ooids visible to the naked eye.
- 17, High StreetMain building stone.
- 17, High StreetA very well-preserved oyster fossil occurs in Portland Stone at the rear of this building, on Orme Road.
- 19, Chesham High StreetWhite limestone dressings on this brick building.
- 24th East Surrey Division War MemorialMain building stone.
- 254, Seven Sisters Road (Taco Bell)Main building stone, used for the upper storeys.
- 30, Churchill PlaceCladding on square-section pillars.
- 35, Sidney StreetMain building stone on ground floor, shop front. This building was formerly a bank.
- 36, Park RowMain building stone.
- 4 MillbankThis Portland Stone building includes a rare occurrence of a large Titanites species ammonite, three whorls…
- 4, Coleman StreetMain building stone. Albion Stone supplied Bowers Basebed and Independent Whitbed for this building.
- 45 Cranbrook RoadMain building stone.
- 5 Curzon SquareCladding on the panels of the modern wings of the building.
- 5, The SquareMain building stone. Much of the building is rendered with lime plaster, and so the stone is only visible a…
- 75, Moseley StreetWall-cladding on either side of the large window and glass door of the coffee shop.
- 82, Lombard StreetMain building stone, including both honed and rusticated blocks ashlars of Portland Stone.
- Abbey MillMain building stone.
- Adelphi HotelMain building stone.
- African & Caribbean War MemorialStone used for the plinth and triangular backing to the monument.
- Aldeburgh War MemorialMain building stone.
- Aldford HouseWhite stone dressings and quoins.
- All Bar OneMain building stone.
- All Saints Church CellanMemorial plaque to Mary Davies on the back wall of the church.
- All Saints Church HastingsWindow dressings and quoins.
- All Saints Church Somerford KeynesMain building stone. A flaggy, oolitic limestone.
- All Saints' Woodford WellsDressings and quoins.
- Apple Store BirminghamMain building stone.
- Arkwright HouseMain building material.
- Armed Forces MemorialMain building stone.
- Ashmolean MuseumGrey limestone used for column, balusters and dressings.
- Ashmolean MuseumYellow limestone ashlar masonry.
- Ashton MemorialMain building stone.
- The Baker's ArmsMain building stone. A flaggy, oolitic limestone.
- The BalfourMain building stone in upper stories.
- Barclays Bank OxfordMain building stone at street level.
- Barclays Bank, Colmore RowMain building stone.
- Barkingside War MemorialMain building stone.
- Bath Spa Station Car Park LodgeSingle storey building in the station carpark. Pale limestone dressings around doors and windows.
- Beckett's BankMain building stone.
- The Berkeley HotelWall claddings on corner of Wilton Place and Knightsbridge.
- Bexhilll War MemorialStone used to construct the obelisk.
- Black Cultural ArchivesMain building stone.
- Blenheim PalaceThe main building stone used here is Clypeus Grit quarried at Cornbury, but a mixture of other original and…
- Bonvilston War Memorial #1The original frame surround of plaque located in the churchyard wall opposite the busy A48. The original Po…
- Bradford-on-Avon Tithe BarnMain building stone.
- Bristol City HallStone dressings and foundations of this otherwise brick building.
- Bristol Temple Meads StationBath Stone dressings make a contrast to the rubbly Draycott Marble in the fabric of the building.
- Brunel SquareMain building stone.
- Buckingham PalaceThe rear of the Palace is constructed of yellow Bath Stone.
- Burford Methodist ChapelMain building stone.
- Campion HallMain building stone. Small blocks of Bladon Stone, a variety of the Forest Marble, are used in Oxford's ea…
- Cardiff Central StationMain building stone.
- Cathedral HouseMain building stone above foundation level. This can be viewed in the walls either side of the entrance ste…
- Chelsea GateEntrance to Battersea Park from Queenstown Road
- Chesham United Reformed ChurchStone used for dressings on windows and doors and for the colonettes at the corners of the building.
- Chesham War MemorialMain building stone.
- Chesterfield Town HallStone used to build to portico and pediment of the front of the building.
- Chindit MemorialStone used for the pillar supporting the bronze Chinthe figure.
- Christchurch WansteadStone dressings and window tracery.
- Church HouseStone dressings around doors and windows.
- Church HouseOdd shaped pieces of oolitic limestone are used in the wall caladding along with flint. These are bloks of…
- Churchill HouseCladding.
- Clare CollegeMain building stone
- Claygate HouseStone dressings of this former police station.
- Colwyn ChambersThe main building stone of the upper storeys is Portland Stone, however this was painted over with whitewas…
- Commonwealth Memorial GatesMain building stone.
- Commonwealth Memorial Gates PavilionMain building stone.
- Compton Verney BoulderThe boulder was brought to Compton Verney, both as a piece of landart and for rock climbing.
- Cooper's HallMain building stone.
- Copped HallQuoins and dressings on the otherwise brick-built building.
- Coronation HouseMain building stone for upper storeys.
- Corpus Christi CollegeMain building stone.
- Covent Garden PiazzaSome of the paving in the arcade that leads to the entrance to the Royal Opera House in the NE corner of th…
- Crystal Palace Geological Illustrations #8The groups of vertebrate models represents geological time periods and stand on artificial islands made of…
- Crystal Palace Geological Illustrations #9A small 'cliff' of Portland Stone stands behind the Megasaurus. Please note that the 'Mesozoic Island'…
- Cunard BuildingThe main building stone is heavily rusticated Portland Stone.
- Dartford LibraryStone dressings and dedicatory plaques.
- Dudley Canal Trust MonolithsStone slabs used for the monoliths in the car park. The origin of this stone is unknown but it is likely to…
- Duke of York SquareWhite limestone cladding on shop fronts. An oolitic and peloidal limestone.
- Durlston GlobeA 3 m diameter globe made from Portland Stone in Durlston Country Park.
- Dyson Building, Imperial CollegeWhite limestone on the ground floor.
- Eastman Dental HospitalWalls facing the pavement and either side of the steps up to the entrance. A dense lag of fossil fragments.
- Ely CathedralSome blocks of several varieties of Lincolnshire limestone occur in the fabric of the cathedral, including…
- Essex Regiment MemorialMain building stone for the obelisk.
- Fargate Pedestrian streetStone bench in the pedestrian walking area opposite the WH Smith's shop.
- Farnham Methodist ChurchDressings and carved details.
- Farnham United Reformed ChurchStone used for quoins and dressings. An unusually coarse grained oolitic limestone.
- Finsbury Park GatesWhite stone used for dressings on the brick gate posts.
- Finsbury Park Richard Hope Play AreaBoulders used for landscaping and for clambering upon. These are not 'standard' Portland Building stone.
- Fitzwilliam MuseumPale yellow-coloured limestone used around the doorway.
- Fleet Air Arm MemorialStone used for construction of the memorial.
- Foreign & Commonwealth OfficeMain building stone, used for ashlar masonry and carved details.
- Former British SchoolLimestone dressings.
- Former NatWest BankMain building stone.
- Forum CinemaMain building stone.
- Four Seasons Hotel Utilities PavilionExterior wall cladding and main building stone.
- French ConnectionMain building stone.
- Friern Barnet Parishoners War MemorialMain building stone, weatehred and encrusted by lichen.
- George's Dock Ventilation & Control StationMain building stone.
- Gillits Bar SculptureA sculpture constructed to represent the medieval gateway into the city.
- Girdlers' HallWhite stone used for dressings.
- Girdlers' HallDedicatory plaque on the south side of the building.
- Gloucester CathedralThe main walls of Cathedral above the "weathering bed".
- Godalming United ChurchBuff-coloured limestone quoins and dressings.
- Government Offices Great George StreetMain building stone, rubble masonry.
- Great St Mary's ChurchMain building stone.
- Great St Mary's ChurchBlocks of oolitic limestone, probably Ketton Stone, with a strange weathering feature, which resembles the…
- Great Western ArcadeMain building stone.
- The Griffin PubBlocks of a grey, shelly, oolitic limestone.
- The Griffin PubPale yellow, oolitic limestone blocks.
- Grosvenor GardensSteps up to the gardens on Buckingham Palace Road are made of Portland ston with Y-shaped trace fossils.
- Grosvenor House BallroomSteps. Sections through a large ammonite can be seen on the polished stones of the steps.
- Grove HallStone dressings.
- Gunnersbury Park TempleMain building stone. Best observed on the columns and under the portico.
- Gurkha MemorialStone used for the plinth of the memorial upon whoch stands a bronze sculpture of a Gurkha soldier. This is…
- Guys' War MemorialMain building stone.
- Harrow School ChapelStone dressings and quoins.
- High Barnet Dental CentreMain building stone.
- High Barnet Post OfficeStone dressings around doors and windows.
- The High StoneStone used to construct the obelisk.
- High Street MilepostStone used for the construction of the milepost.
- Holy Trinity ChurchQuoins and a few blocks in the rubble masonry.
- Hope Street HotelMain building stone. This building was originally an extension to the neighbouring Blind School.
- HSBC Bank DoncasterMain building stone.
- Intercontinental HotelMain building stone
- Iraq & Afghanistan War MemorialStone used for the memorial. The surface is both honed and axe-dressed Jordans Base Bed.
- The Ivy HouseMain building stone. This building is currently part of the Crossrail development. Hopefully it will surviv…
- The Ivy RestaurantMain building stone.
- Joseph J. Jones Drinking FountainMain building stone.
- Kapture RestaurantStone used for cladding the ground floor above the granite foundations.
- King William’s TempleMain building stone
- King's CollegeMain building stone.
- King's Cross MilestoneA battered old milestone cut from Portland Stone.
- King's Cross Travelodge (Willings House)White limestone used as dressings in contrast to the red brickwork.
- Korean War MemorialStone used for the memorial.
- Lacock AbbeyMain building stone.
- Lacock Abbey CourtyardWindow dressings.
- Lacock Lock-UpMain building stone. The lock-Up is built of fine Bath Stone Ashlar.
- Laidlaw LibraryMain building stone.
- Leeds Civic HallAll exterior building stone and columns, these are best viewed on the south side of the building, facing Mi…
- Lewes County HallMain building stone. The sculptural panels (not visible on the photograph) are in Coade Stone (a ceramic).
- Lewes Crown Court (Newcastle House)Main building stone.
- Lewes War MemorialMain building stone for the obelisk.
- Lewis's Department StoreMain building stone.
- Leyton LibraryA pale-coloured brick building with dressings of Portland Stone.
- Leyton Old Town HallA red brick building with Portland Stone dressings.
- Leytonstone High StoneAn historic, stone obelisk milepost. The current stone - which has given its name to Leytonstone - is a rep…
- The LightMain building stone. This is a small shopping development based on the Leeds Permanent Building Society. A…
- Liners HouseMain building and sculptural stone.
- Little St Mary's ChurchRippled, yellow, oolitic limestone used for ashlar masonry. The ripple marks are clear, even on the well-cu…
- Llanharan War MemorialStone used to construct the memorial.
- Lloyds BankMain building stone.
- London Fruit & Wool ExchangeMain building stone.
- The Lost Dene (Grampian House)Main building stone.
- Manchester Central LibraryPillars of the portico and main building stone.
- Manordeifi New ChurchYellow limestone dressings around the door and windows.
- MeHotel StrandCladding on the building uses several varieties of Portland Stone Whitbed. For the most part, this is a fac…
- Military Police MemorialPlinth to bronze sculpture.
- Miller & Carter Steak House ManchesterMain building stone.
- Ministry of DefenceMain building and sculptural stone.
- Ministry of DefenceStone used around the doorways inside the portico on Horse Guards Avenue.
- Minster Church of St CuthbergaA few blocks of Portland Stone are used in the fabric of the Minster.
- Minster SundialThe face of the sundial is mainly constructed of Bath Stone.
- Miskin War MemorialThe memorial is located in the centre of the road opposite the Miskin Arms public house. It is constructed…
- Mission for Seafarers (St Michael Paternoster Royal)Yellow stone panels on south wall.
- Monmouth War MemorialThe building stone of the memorial.
- Museum Gardens Anglian TowerAn Anglo-Saxon Tower built against the Roman Walls. It is mostly built of Corallian limestones and mainly t…
- National Portrait Gallery Administrative OfficesThe main stone used for cladding is Portland Whitbed.
- National Portrait Gallery Administrative OfficesBands of Portland Roach form part of the cladding of this building. Good examples of this stone are also se…
- NatWest BankMain building stone.
- NatWest BankMain building stone.
- NatWest BankMain building stone.
- NatWest Bank DoncasterMain building stone of the upper storeys.
- Natwest IlfordMain building stone.
- North HouseThe Portland Stone used to clad this building has very nice and clear example of shell lags accumulated on…
- Notre Dame de FranceStone dressings and sculpture on the building's exterior. The original building interior dates to the mid 1…
- ObeliskThe stone used for the obelisk. This is 18th Century Portland Stone and the weathering shows up the oolitic…
- ObeliskMain building stone. The plaque is Peterhead Granite
- ObeliskMain building stone.
- Old Ashmolean MuseumMain building stone, also used for columns at the doorway.
- The Old BankMain building stone of this former bank building.
- Old Park GatesMain building stone.
- Old Sessions HouseMain building stone. However note that the stone on the sides and rear of the building is much replaced, ma…
- Osterley ParkThe house is mainly built from red brick. However, white stone dressings, columns, steps and some paving in…
- Oxford University Divinity SchoolsMain building stone.
- Passmore Edwards LibraryDressings and window tracery.
- Pembroke CollegeMain building stone.
- Percivall HouseThe ground floor of the building is clad in the Roach facies of Portland Stone.
- Peterhouse College ChapelMain building stone.
- Pontyclun War MemorialThe stone used for the construction of the memorial.
- Porthcawl War MemorialStone used to construct the war memorial.
- Portland Heights HotelTwo large titanite ammonites are situated either side of the the hotel entrance.
- Precentor's HouseA slab of Ketton stone with clear oolitic texture occurs in the buttress to the left of the Precentor's Hou…
- The PrioryBath Stone has been used to replace weathered Caen Stone in window dressings and quoins on the building.
- Queen Square ObeliskA monument to Frederick, Prince of Wales, stands in the middle of the square. Main building stone.
- Queen's HotelMain building stone.
- Radcliffe CameraMain building stone used for the upper stories, a yellowish variety of Oxford Stone from the Taynton area.…
- Raffles London (Old War Offices)Main building stone.
- Rhodes HouseMain building stone. Small blocks of Bladon Stone, a variety of the Forest Marble, are used in Oxford's ea…
- The Round ChurchDressings and quoins on newer extension behind the rotunda.
- The Round ChurchRoofing tiles flag tilestones from Middle Jurassic oolitic limestones. Both Lincolnshire Collyweston Slate…
- Royal Bank of ScotlandMain building stone.
- Royal Engineers MemorialObelisk.
- RSE Extension (Lakeland)Much of the frontage of the building is of Portland Stone.
- Russell Square HouseMain building stone of the ground floor of this building.
- Sainsburys LocalMain building stone.
- Scott Polar InstituteStone dressings.
- Sculpture: DiogenistPlinth to the statue.
- Sculpture: The SharedVarious stones are used in this sculpture. The more yellowish is Bath Stone
- Sculpture: The SharedVarious stones are used in this sculpture. Some of the white stone is Portland Stone.
- Sheldonian TheatreMain building stone used at the back of the building, facing the Divinity schools. Here the stone is largel…
- Slug & Lettuce BarOrange coloured perpendicular wall-cladding at the far right and left of the restaurant.
- Somerset HouseMain building stone.
- Southgate PlaceMain building stone. Although locally quarried (probably from Hartham Park), the stone was sent to Italy fo…
- The SpiresStone used for the construction of the spires.
- The SpiresStone used for the dedicatory plaques on each spire.
- St Mary's Churchyard HarmondsworthA row of 18th Century headstones on the right hand side of the path approaching the church.
- St Andrew's Parish ChurchExtensive repairs to main building stone of the tower.
- St Andrew’s Infant SchoolStone dressings.
- St Anne's CathedralMain building stone, including the tracery, dressings, door and window surrounds. The Cathedral was rebuilt…
- St Augustine's Church Honor OakDressings around the window and doorways.
- St Augustine's Church Honor OakPairs of small columns at the church door.
- St Barnabas ChurchWindow dressings and quoins.
- St George's ChapelMain building stone.
- St George's ChapelWhite limestone kerb around the chapel. This Portland Stone contains a rare nodule of flint.
- St George's Church PortlandMain building stone.
- St Giles-in-the-FieldsMain building stone.
- St Ives LibraryEngaged columns at the corners and dressings around windows and doors.
- St John the Baptist ChurchThe main building stone of this fine, Victorian church is a shelley, cross-bedded facies of Bath Stone. The…
- St John the Baptist ChurchStone used for dressings in the Victorian phases.
- St John The Baptist Church PinnerStone dressings and quoins.
- St John The Baptist VestryStone dressings.
- St John's Church BarnetStone used for windows and other dressings.
- St John-the-Baptist Church BurfordThe building stone for the church is quarried locally in the Windrush Valley from quarries around Taynton a…
- St Katharine's Greek Orthodox Church (Old St James's).Stone used for quoins, windows and other dressings. There are also a few nodules of re-used Bath Stone in t…
- St Lawrence & Mary Magdalen Drinking FountainMain building stone of this Victorian Gothic Fountain.
- St Lawrence & Mary Magdalen Drinking FountainStone used for the superstructure of the fountain above the Portland Stone plinth.
- St Margaret of Antioch EdgwareQuoin stones. These are more recent restoration and do not date to the construction of the 15th Century Tower.
- St Mary Magdalen Churchyard BermondseyA chest tomb in the Churchyard.
- St Mary Magdalen Drinking FountainMain building stone of the fountain.
- St Mary Magdalen's ChurchWindow dressings and quoins.
- St Mary Magdalene ChurchBath Stone is used for window dressings and the odd block of masonry in the church's fabric.
- St Mary the VirginStone dressings, including restoration stonework.
- St Mary's Church CheshamStone used for dressings around the windows and doors, and also as quoins on the buttresses.
- St Mary's Church CholseyDressings around doors and windows and quoins.
- St Mary's Church HarmondsworthSundial, located on the wall to the right of the porch.
- St Mary's Church Harrow-on-the-HillStone dressings and quoins.
- St Mary's Church Llanfair ClydogauDressings around windows and doors.
- St Mary's Church WallingfordQuoins and dressings of oolitic limestone.
- St Mary's Church, LlandudnoNorth West Corner of Tower
- St Mary's Churchyard CholseyStone used for the author Agatha Christie's impressive gravestone.
- St Mary's Churchyard HornseyStone used to construct a chest tomb.
- St Mary's Churchyard South WoodfordTwo gravestones, one with cherubs and another with skulls, lean up against the churchwall. The skulls stone…
- St Mary's Churchyard South WoodfordMicklefield Memorial
- St Mary's Churchyard South WoodfordRaikes Mausoleum
- St Mary's Churchyard South WoodfordWilliam Morris tomb.
- St Mary's Churchyard South WoodfordWar Memorial
- St Mary's MoorfieldsMain building stone.
- St Mary's Tower HornseyWhite stone dressings.
- St Mary-the-Virgin ChurchDressings around the Norman doorway.
- St Matthew's ChurchMain building stone.
- St Michael's Church HouseFoundation stone and donor's are in Portland Stone.
- St Michael's-at-the-NorthgateStone used for the quoins is mainly a white, oolitic limestone from the quarries in the Windrush Valley, su…
- St Nicholas War MemorialStone used to construct the war memorial.
- St Nicholas's Church, ChiswickLimestone ledger slabs at the eastern end of the church, by the First World war memorial, feature the cast…
- St Nicholas's ChurchyardAnn Hall's chest tomb to the south of the main entrance.
- St Peter's Church BexhillWindow dressings and quoins. The original church is Norman, but it was extensively restored in the 19th Cen…
- Statue of Ferdinand FochStone plinth of the bronze, equestrian statue.
- Steel City HouseMain building stone.
- Stone Ball from Old Shern HallStone used for the ball. This is a very weathered, coarse grained oolitic limestone. It seems a bit too coa…
- Sunlight HouseMain building stone.
- Sutton Masonic HallBands of a calcarenitic, fossil rich, oolitic limestone alternate with red brick in this building.
- Sutton Post OfficeMain building stone at foundation level.
- Tate LibraryStone used for dressings.
- Tooting Bec StationMain building stone.
- Trinity GateStone used for ashlar masonry.
- Truro CathedralDressings and window tracery.
- TSB Bank DoncasterMain building stone.
- Tudor HallStone dressings around doors and windows.
- UCL Bentham House (Hillel House)Cladding on the building. A very shelly facies of Portland Stone.
- University of Bangor Memorial BuildingStone dressings.
- University of Oxford Inorganic Chemistry LaboratoryMain building stone. Small blocks of Bladon Stone, a variety of the Forest Marble, are used in Oxford's ea…
- Vanbrugh House HotelThe facade of this building was once Taynton Stone, one of the traditional Oxford Stones, but it has now la…
- Verne High Angle BatteryVictorian gun placement. Built of both Portland Stone Ashlar as well as concrete. Both Portland Whitbed and…
- Walthamstow United Reformed ChurchLimestone used for dressings and window surrounds.
- Wanstead United Reformed ChurchStone dressings.
- Wanstead War MemorialMain construction stone. This is much stained and varies from blue to yellow to white, partly due to corros…
- War MemorialMain building stone of the upper part of the war memoria. At the design stage, local resident and geologist…
- War Memorial BuildingWhite stone dressings and ashlar blocks in the rubble masonry.
- The Waterguard (former Customs & Excise House)Pale stone dressings on the old part of the building.
- Waxy O'ConnorsMain building material.
- The Wellcome Building (Wellcome Collection)Main building stone.
- Whipps Cross War MemorialMain construction stone.
- Willow ApartmentsStone used on the south corner of the building. Bath stone is superficially similar to the elvan used for t…