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Barclays Bank, Parliament Street

St Bees Sandstone

  • Sedimentary
  • Sandstone
  • Triassic

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Location of Geological Feature
Red stone used in conjunction with brick in columns and around window frames of building. A fine-to-medium-grained quartz arenite with iron oxide grain coatings giving it a reddish-brown colour; mostly parallel-laminated, possible tabular dune cross-bedding.
Rock Type
Sandstone
Geological Age
Triassic
Quarry Location
St Bees Head, Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Category
Sedimentary
Nearest station
York
Address
1-3, Parliament Street YO1 8SE.
Building architect
Edmund Kirby
Date of build
1901
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Description by Liam Herringshaw, with information from York Historic Environment Record and Historic England listing details.

Stone identified by Ruth Siddall.
Barclays Bank, Parliament Street — St Bees Sandstone
St Bees Sandstone at Barclays Bank, Parliament Street
St Bees Sandstone at Barclays Bank, Parliament Street (detail 2)