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Grosvenor House Suites

French calcarenite

  • Sedimentary
  • Jurassic-Cretaceous

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Location of Geological Feature
Main building stone on ground floor. This is a shelly, coarse calcarenite. The provenance is unknown, but Pevsner describes these buildings as constructed if French Limestone.
Fossils
Radiolitid rudists & shell fragments.
Geological Age
Jurassic-Cretaceous
Quarry Location
France
Category
Sedimentary
Nearest station
Hyde Park Corner
Address
Park Lane & Mount Street W1K 7TN
Building architect
Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie and Edward Lutyens
Date of build
1929
Grosvenor House Suites — French calcarenite
French calcarenite at Grosvenor House Suites
French calcarenite at Grosvenor House Suites (detail 2)
French calcarenite at Grosvenor House Suites (detail 3)
    Entry submitted by Ruth Siddall

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