Sedimentary locations
2,080 locations catalogued as sedimentary, page 5 of 7.
- One Cartwright GardensDecorative stonework in the portico around the entrance.a golden-colured, flame-finished stone. The stone w…
- One Cartwright GardensDecorative stonework in the portico around the entrance. The white stone has been 'bush-hammered' to give a…
- One East ParadeBands of buff sandstone on the ground floor of the building. These show cross-bedding.
- One Tower BridgeStone used for brick-shaped cladding.
- One Tower BridgeStone used for brick-shaped cladding.
- The OratoryMain building stone of this building in St James's Mount Cemetery.
- Oriel MonA boulder of karst-weathered limestone stands outside the gallery.
- Oriel Plas Glyn-y-WeddwLimestone dressings.
- Osterley ParkThe house is mainly built from red brick. However, white stone dressings, columns, steps and some paving in…
- Osterley ParkPaving in the central courtyard is a mixture of Portland Stone and Purbeck Limestone. The darker-coloured s…
- Oswald StreetMain building stone.
- Our Lady Queen of MartyrsYellow sandstone dressings.
- Our Lady's & St James's R.C. ChurchMain building stone.
- Our Lady's & St James's R.C. ChurchDressings and quoins.
- Ouse BridgeMain building stone, a coarse grained, pebbly gritstone. The exact stratigraphic and geographical provenanc…
- Overton War MemorialA red sandtone used to construct the memorial.
- Oxford Town Hall & MuseumMain building stone.
- Oxford University Divinity SchoolsMain building stone.
- Oxford University Museum of Natural HistoryMain building stone.
- Paddington Station Platforms & ConcoursePaving in the main concourse and on the platforms.
- Palace CinemaMain building stone.
- Pancras SquareStone used for the water features and some paving. The finely laminated nature of the rock can be seen in m…
- Parapet along the roadSlabs of slatey siltsone used to construct the wall and parapet along the main road.
- Parliament SquarePaving
- Parliament SquarePaving
- Pascoe HouseDecorative stone dressings on the street elevation of Pascoe House.
- Passmore Edwards LibraryDressings and window tracery.
- Passmore Edwards LibraryGrey limestone ashlar masonry.
- Paternoster MonumentMain building stone. Good examples of shell fossils and bioturbation are to be seen in the steps and seating.
- Paternoster SquareYellow sandstone paving.
- Paving at Stockwell War MemorialThe stone used for paving has good examples of ripple cross-bedding and other sedimentary structures.
- Peace GardensStone benches facing inwards around the preimeter.
- Peace GardensOuter larger paving stones within the garden area.
- Peascod StreetSetts used for paving the road.
- Peascod StreetKerbstones of sarsen occur on the eastern end of the street.
- Pembroke CollegeMain building stone.
- Penarth DockDock walls.
- Penmon DovecoteSecondary building stone.
- Penmon DovecoteMain building stone.
- Penmon PrioryMain building stone.
- Penmon PrioryMain building stone.
- Penmon Priory ChurchMain building stone.
- Penmon Priory ChurchMain building stone.
- Penrhyn CastleMain building stone. Penmon Limestone is the main stone used in this building, but stone was also procured…
- Penrhyn HallStone dressings and foundations.
- Pentre Ifan Burial ChamberNeolithic megalithic site. The burial chamber is constructed from locally derived field stones, and would o…
- Percivall HouseThe ground floor of the building is clad in the Roach facies of Portland Stone.
- Peter Jones Department StoreEntrance to the store on Cadogan Gardens.
- Peterhouse CollegeMasonry blocks in the back of Peterhouse, observed from Little St Mary's Churchyard. A white stone. Clunch…
- Peterhouse College ChapelMain building stone.
- Peterloo MemorialStone used for the second step.
- Peterloo MemorialStone used for the third step.
- Peterloo MemorialStone used for the fourth step.
- Peterloo MemorialStone used for the sixth step.
- Peterloo MemorialStone used for the eighth step.
- Peterloo MemorialStone used for the ninth step.
- Peterloo MemorialStone used for the tenth step. This step is decorated with a wreath made from Cumbrian Green Slate ad a bla…
- Philharmonic Dining RoomsMain building stone.
- Picturehouse CentralMain building stone on first storey.
- Picturehouse CentralColumn plinths and rusticated dressings around the main doorway in Shaftesbury Avenue.
- Picturehouse CentralSoffits inside the main doorway.
- Picturehouse CentralPink marble columns.
- The Pilot PubThe steps which descend from the Pilot public house on Queens Road down to Paget Road in Penarth comprise R…
- The PinnacleSlate cladding on the front of the building. Slabs show spectacular sedimentary structures including rip-up…
- Pinner War MemorialMain building stone.
- The PiperMain building stone. There are some interesting sedimentary structures in this stone, where cross-bedding h…
- Plantation PlaceCladding on main building. Spectacular examples of fossils can be seen here.
- Plantation PlaceLettering on paving.
- Plantation PlaceStone used for cladding this building.
- Plantation Place EntranceSandstone cladding to feature in entrance courtyard
- Plas Alcock (So Chic)The oldest chimney in Bangor. A Medieval chimney, built from sandstone blocks, sits on top of the building…
- Plas BowmanFacing stone on Stryd Fawr.
- Plas Llanwnda (County Education Offices)Main building stone.
- Plas NewyddMain building stone.
- Pole Hill ObeliskPaving flags around the base.
- PontioCladding used on the building.
- Pontyclun War MemorialThe stone used for the construction of the memorial.
- Poole Street FountainMain building stone. As well as some nice examples of Rugose corals, there are also pyrite nodules to be fo…
- Port of London Authority BuildingMain building stone.
- Portcullis HouseMain building stone, in vertical panels between steel-framed windows.
- Porth Mawr (Exchequer Gate)Main building stone. This is a micritic, poorly fossiliferous variety of Penmon Limestone.
- Porth Mawr (Exchequer Gate)Stone used for quoins and window dressings.THis is probably the drab-coloured variety of Cefn Stone.
- Porthcawl War MemorialStone used to construct the war memorial.
- Post Office/Londis StoreSlaty, slabs of fine grained, cleaved siltstone used in the construction of the building. The stone has dis…
- Post Office/Londis StorePale blue-grey blocks used in the construction of the older parts of the building. A poorly-sorted, tufface…
- PradaCladding. This black stone takes a mirror-like polish and is almost impossible to photograph. It contains w…
- Pradoe ChurchMain building stone, except for the nave wall on the south side.
- Pradoe ChurchStone used on the south-facing wall of the nave. This is a multicoloured, mineralised sandstone with staini…
- Precentor's HouseBrown sandstones used in the rubble masonry. This is the local stone, quarried in Ely.
- Precentor's HouseLimestone used for dressings and for the buttress.
- Precentor's HouseA slab of Ketton stone with clear oolitic texture occurs in the buttress to the left of the Precentor's Hou…
- Precentor's HouseBlocks of blueish Purbeck stone are reused in the the rubble masonry walls.
- Premier InnMain building stone.
- Presaddfed Dolmen #1Gritty, conglomeratic sandstones used for the capstone of the dolmen.
- Presbyterian ChurchMain building stone. This laminated sandstone has been identified as a variety of Cefn Stone by Haslam et a…
- The PresbyteryThe building is clad with local beach flints with obvious chatter-marks.
- Press Room CafePaving outside the cafe is pock-marked with fossilised raindrops.
- Pret-a-MangerMain building stone.
- Principality Building SocietyMain building stone for upper storeys. Red sandstones are obtained from various localities in NW England an…
- The PrioryFlints are the main construction stone used in the rubble masonry of the Town Walls. Local knapping techniq…
- The PrioryThe original, much weathered, window tracery is Caen Stone.
- The PrioryThe coarse grained, calcarenitic facies of of the Ancaster Limestone has been used as replacement window si…
- The PrioryBath Stone has been used to replace weathered Caen Stone in window dressings and quoins on the building.
- Priory RoadMain building material in wall.
- Priory RoadSubsidiary building material in the rubble masonry of the wall.
- Priory RoadMain building material in wall. A large, eye-shaped boulder has sections through belemnites.
- PrudentialMain building stone.
- PrudentialMain building stone.
- Public Records OfficeStone dressings.
- Public Records OfficeRubble masonry. Some of this has been refurbished and replaced.
- Pump RoomMain building stone.
- Purbeck House HotelThe foundations of this impressive building are built of the local Purbeck Stone.
- Purbeck House Hotel GazeboThe gazebo is built of the local Purbeck Freestone and is topped by a bronze thistle.
- Quebecs ApartmentsMain building stone. A buff sandstone.
- Queen Elizabeth GateMain building stone. A spectacular oolitic limestone with fossil shell fragments.
- Queen Square ObeliskA monument to Frederick, Prince of Wales, stands in the middle of the square. Main building stone.
- Queen Street StationThe new (refurbished October 2021) external limestone cladding at Queen Street Train Station, best seen at…
- Queen's GalleryMain building stone.
- Queen's GalleryStone used for carved and gilded details.
- The Queen's Head PubA small pub with a lot of interesting geology. The paved yard in front of the pub is edged with black Ashb…
- Queen's HotelMain building stone.
- Queen's StaitheA wide variety of glacial erratic cobbles are used for paving on the Staithe. These include fossiliferous l…
- Radcliffe CameraMain building stone used for the upper stories, a yellowish variety of Oxford Stone from the Taynton area.…
- Radcliffe CameraBuilding stone used for the large, grey ashlars forming the foundation course of the Camera.
- Radcliffe CameraFace-bedded white limestone used as the lowest course of stone around the building.
- Radcliffe SquareRounded cobbles of beach flint used for paving.
- RAF Bomber Command MemorialMain building stone
- RAF Bomber Command MemorialMain building stone.
- RAF MemorialMain building stone.
- Raffles London (Old War Offices)Main building stone.
- Ralph Lauren, New Bond StreetMain building stone
- Rayner Memorial Clock TowerMain building stone.
- Rear Admiral Beaufort's GraveMain stone used in the sarcophagus. Admiral Beaufort developed the 'Beaufort Scale' for measuring wind stre…
- Redchurch StreetPaving flags are a 'picture sandstone', with well developed liesegang bands.
- Reeth War MemorialA sandstone obelisk constructed from sandstone.
- Rhodes HouseMain building stone. Small blocks of Bladon Stone, a variety of the Forest Marble, are used in Oxford's ea…
- Rhodes HouseStone used for quoins and other dressings.
- Richard Green, New Bond StreetMain building stone
- Richmond Market PlaceCobblestone paving. River cobbles from the local rivers (i.e River Swale) are used for paving. These are pr…
- Richmond SportMain building stone.
- Ridgefield HouseExterior cladding around the main porch entrance and window.
- The RiverMain building stone.
- River HouseStone used around the doorway of River House.
- River Island StoreStone cladding on the shop front.
- River Ouse PathCobblestones. These are derived from glacial deposits and include cobbles from far wide. Look out for Nprwe…
- Riverwalk ApartmentsWhite limestone used to clad the curved bands - which are intended to represent strata - on this new apartm…
- RNLI MemorialSculpture of a lifeboatman carved from a rough-hewn boulder.
- Rockery, Botanic GardenThe stones from the rockery were brought from the limestone pavements of the Lancashire Pennines.
- Rockery, Insole CourtRockery on both sides of path heading southwards from the east side of house.
- Rocket RestaurantCladding on building.
- Rolls BuildingMain stone used for cladding the building.
- Roman BathsThe Victorian restorations of the Roman Baths are all in the local Bath Stone.
- Roman Catholic CathedralMain building stone.
- Roman Catholic CathedralRed sandstone used as dressings. This is possibly Triassic Cheshire Sandstone from Helsby or Permian sandst…
- Romilly Crescent Drinking FountainThe base, quoins and cap stones the fountain.
- Rookwood HospitalWalls of the old Rookwood House.
- Rose & Crown Pub Car ParkMost buildings in Snettisham are built for Carstone which is quarried in the village. A range of facies can…
- The Round ChurchMain building stone.
- The Round ChurchDressings and quoins on newer extension behind the rotunda.
- The Round ChurchRoofing tiles of Collyweston Slate from the Lower Lincolnshire Limestone are used in the roof along with Ox…
- The Round ChurchRoofing tiles flag tilestones from Middle Jurassic oolitic limestones. Both Lincolnshire Collyweston Slate…
- Royal Academy of Dramatic ArtsMain building stone
- Royal Albert HallPaving around building
- Royal Artillery MonumentMain building stone.
- Royal Australian Airforce Memorial StoneA small sandstone slab supports a plaque commemorating the Royal Australian Airforce. This slightly orange-…
- Royal Bank of ScotlandMain building stone.
- Royal Bank of ScotlandStone used for archway around the pedestrian entrance.
- Royal Banqueting House, WhitehallMain building stone. This building designed by Inigo Jones, inspired the widespread use of Portland Stone i…
- Royal Courts of JusticeSeating along the Strand.
- Royal Courts of JusticeMain building stone.
- Royal Engineers MemorialObelisk.
- Royal Engineers MemorialFloating boulders.
- Royal ExchangeMain building stone.
- Royal Exchange War MemorialMain building stone.
- Royal Institute of Chartered SurveyorsStonework.
- Royal National HotelCladding on columns and panels adjacent to both the North and South entrances in the courtyard. Good exampl…
- Royal Naval CollegePaving around building.
- Royal Naval CollegeMain building stone.
- Royal Naval College FountainMain building stone.
- Royal Oxford HotelMain building stone. W. J. Arkell describes this stone as being an 'offensive chrome yellow colour'. This i…
- Royal School of MinesMain building stone.
- Royal Welsh Yacht ClubQuoins aroun the arched gate in the town walls.
- Royal Welsh Yacht ClubRed sandstone dressings around the windows. The weathering has picked out the cross bedding.
- 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.
- Ryder CourtStonework around door and alternating with bands of red brick.
- Sacrist's GateMain building stone used for the gateway.
- Saffron Walden War MemorialMain building stone.
- Said Business SchoolMain building stone.
- Sainsbury Wellcome CentreSeating area on the corner of Howland Street and Cleveland Street.
- Sainsbury's MatlockMain external building stones, both pink and buff blocks from a single quarry
- Sainsburys & 42 Mincing LaneMain building stone. This is a fossilifereous variety of Portland Stone with a section of a large ammonite,…
- Sainsburys LocalMain building stone.
- Salem ChapelMain building stone, quoins and dressings. Two types of Penmon Limestone are used on this building. The fos…
- Salem ChapelStone dressings and columns around the entrance.
- Salisbury CathedralMain building stone.
- Samuel Pepys MemorialStone for plinth.
- Sandro, Marylebone High StreetCladding around shop windows.
- Santander Bank, FargatePaved segment of a circle on Fargate walkway, across from Santander Bank.
- The ScotsmanMain building stone.
- Scotsman StepsScotsman's Steps is an installation of multicoloured stones. It is an urban geology gem, but there is room…
- Scott Polar InstituteStone dressings.
- Scottish National Portrait GalleryMain building stone. Red Moat sandstone and Corsehill stone, both bright red sandstones are used in the con…
- Scottish National Portrait GalleryMain building stone. Red Corsehill sandstone has also been used for the restoration of this building.
- Sculpture: DiogenistStone used for the figure of 'the Diogenist'. It is crowded with crinoid fragments, weathered out on the su…
- Sculpture: DiogenistPlinth to the statue.
- Sculpture: Monolith (Empyrean)Stone used for the sculpture. A biosparite packed with crinoid fragments.
- Sculpture: Monolith and ShadowStone used for sculpture on the front entrance (Euston Road) by John Aiken.
- Sculpture: St PeterStone used for sculpture. St Peter holds a Yale key.
- 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.
- Sea GateMain building stone.
- Sedding Telephone ExchangeWhite stone dressings.
- Sedgwick MuseumStone bears on the steps, outside the museum entance.
- Seething Lane GardensPaving.
- Segontium Roman FortPaving.
- Seilo Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ChurchMain building stone on the ground floor. An aeolian red sandstone with cross-bedding.
- Seilo Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ChurchWalls along Gloddeath Avenue. Dressed limestone blocks.
- Seion Chapel (St David's Church)Main building stone.
- Selfridges Arndale CentreFacing Exchange Square, the exterior walls of Selfridges are clad in limestone which display fossils. Benea…
- Senate HouseMain building stone.
- Seven Dials MonumentMain building stone.
- Sexy Fish (Restaurant)Ornamental stone cladding on the outside of the restaurant at the corner of Berkeley Square and Bruton Lane…
- Shakespeare's Globe TheatrePaving around the theatre.
- Sheep & ShepherdSculpture by Elizabeth Frink. Base of statue.
- Sheffield CathedralExterior stonework on the left side of the door of the new extension which created new main entrance
- Sheffield CathedralBuff sandstone paving leading to the West Cathedral entrance.
- Sheffield CathedralRed stone strips in the entrance paving leading to the West Door of the Cathedral.
- Sheffield Town HallAll exterior walls and mouldings on the building's facade.
- Sheldonian TheatreMain building stone used at the back of the building, facing the Divinity schools. Here the stone is largel…
- Sheldonian TheatreStone used to reface the building.
- Shell CentreCladding
- Shilling Brewing CompanyMain building stone.
- Ship Canal HouseMain building stone.
- The Ship InnThe pub is roofed with local tilestones from the Purbeck Stone, as are many of the buildings in Swanage. Fl…
- Shire HallMain building stone.
- Shirehall StreetStone used for quoins.
- Shri Sanatan Hindu MandirMain building stone. The stone was carved in India and transported to London for assembly on this site. Jai…
- Shrubland RoadPart of pavement on south side of Shrubland Road just before its junction with Queensbridge Road.
- Simply Street CafeMain building stone.
- Sinclair's Oyster BarAway from the Tudor facade, on the eastern and northern walls at first floor level, the building has a mode…
- Sir Henry Tate MemorialThe Portland Stone used for the plinth of the bronze bust of Tate (d. 1899) has been very strongly stained…
- Sir Huw Owen StatuePlinth of statue.
- Sir Patrick Stewart BuildingAll exterior stonewark of the archways around the main wooden door on Page Street.
- The SkerriesMain building stone.
- Sloane SquarePaving in the Square.
- Sloane Square FountainStone used for the basin.
- Slug & LettuceRed sandstone facade to the pub.
- Slug & Lettuce BarOrange coloured perpendicular wall-cladding at the far right and left of the restaurant.
- Somerset HousePaving in the entrance porch at the entrance to the Strand.
- Somerset HouseMain building stone. The Portland Stone has been rusticated here, transforming its appearance.
- Somerset HouseMain building stone.
- South Africa HouseMain building stone and sculpture
- South African War MemorialStone used for central plinth.
- South Atlantic Task Force MemorialGateposts to the memorial garden.
- South Atlantic Task Force MemorialMemorial Wall.
- Southgate PlaceMain building stone. Although locally quarried (probably from Hartham Park), the stone was sent to Italy fo…
- Southover Grange Registry OfficeMain building stone.
- Southwark CathedralMain building stone used for quoins, window frames and dressings between panels of flint.
- Southwark CathedralMain building stone. Flints are collected from beach gravels.
- Southwark CathedralPilasters around doorway.
- Southwark Cathedral Chapter HouseMain building stone
- Southwark Cathedral Chapter HouseSplit flint pebbles are used to face the walls of the Chapter House
- The SpiresStone used for the foundations.
- 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 Aelhearn's ChurchWindow dressings and 1622 date plaque.
- St Albans CourtPaving. York stone with well-developed liesegang banding is used here. It is probably the Appleton variety…
- St Alphege's GreenwichMain building stone.
- St Andrew's GrintonMain building stone, a local sandstone from the Yoredale Group.
- St Andrew's Parish ChurchMain building stone.
- St Andrew's Parish ChurchExtensive repairs to main building stone of the tower.
- St Andrew's Parish ChurchCommorative panels on exterior, one to the right of the West door. Extreme weathering has removed all trace…
- St Andrew's Parish ChurchExtensive 19th Century repairs to main building stone of the tower.
- St Andrew's Parish ChurchStone dressings on doorways and windows.
- St Andrew's Preservation TrustMain building stone.
- St Andrew’s Infant SchoolMain building stone.
- St Andrew’s Infant SchoolStone dressings.
- St Andrews CastleMain building stone.
- St Andrews CathedralMain building stone.
- St Andrews Cathedral WallsMain building stone.
- St Andrews PierStones used to build the pier are local sandstones, including ironstones with distinctive ripple marks.
- St Ann's ChurchSt Ann's was originally built from Collyhurst Stone, but this has now been replaced with a variety of sands…
- St Ann's ChurchThe original stonework is of purple to grey, cross-bedded and sometimes speckled sandstone. The walls are n…
- St Ann's ChurchPatching and repair stone, especially on the eastern apse of the church.
- St Anne's CathedralMain building stone, including the tracery, dressings, door and window surrounds. The Cathedral was rebuilt…
- St Anne's Church LewesThe quarry flint clad walls probably belong the late 19th Century restotation of the Church. Flints typical…
- St Anne's Church LewesThe dark brown, tilestones used for roofing are Horsham Stone. These fissile sandstones break into tiles pa…
- St Anne's Church LewesDressings and quoins.
- St Anne's Church LewesThe extension on the SW corner of the church is constructed in the same style as the rest of the church. Ne…
- St Anne's LimehouseMain building stone.
- St Augustine ChurchColumns on the church tower.
- St Augustine's AbbeyA standing stone marking the site of St Augustine's church founded in the late seventh century CE.
- St Augustine's Church Honor OakMain building stone, rubble masonry.
- 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 Augustine's TowerStone dressings, steps and quoins.
- St Augustine's TowerMain building stone.
- St Barnabas ChurchThe building is clad with local beach flints with obvious chatter-marks.