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Church of All Saints Pavement, York

Tadcaster Stone

  • Sedimentary
  • Dolostone
  • Permian

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Location of Geological Feature
Main ashlar building stone of the church. As it is "underlain" by a chamfered plinth of pebbly Carboniferous sandstones, it is an ecclesiastical mimic of the Permo-Carboniferous unconformity seen in Yorkshire's bedrock geology.
Fossils
Mottled bioturbation textures in some blocks
Rock Type
Dolostone
Geological Age
Permian
Category
Sedimentary
Nearest station
York
Address
High Ousegate YO1 8RZ
Date of build
14th Century, refaced in
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Description by Liam Herringshaw, with information from York Historic Environment Record and Historic England listing details.
Church of All Saints Pavement, York — Tadcaster Stone
Tadcaster Stone at Church of All Saints Pavement, York
Tadcaster Stone at Church of All Saints Pavement, York (detail 2)