![]() ![]() The window arches, quoins and coping stones of the west front, and the turrets of the tower, which are contrasted with a grey-coloured Devonian limestone, of Buckfast Abbey, Devon, are of Ham Hill Stone. It was used also for Sherborne Abbey, Dorset. It is a durable building stone which is most widely known for its use for the classic masterpiece, Montacute House, Somerset built in 1603. The second was darker in colour and known as the Grey Bed. One was pale brown or buff in colour and known as the Yellow Bed. Although the formation may be more or less sandy in places, the stone is correctly classified as a limestone, rather than a sandstone. ![]() A richly-toned brown in colour, it consists mostly of broken fossil shells with a ferruginous cement. It has been worked at least since Roman times and some Roman coffins are made of it. Ham Hill Stone, from the upper part of the Lias, quarried at Hamdon Hill, near Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, is a lenticular mass of detrital shelly limestone about 90 feet (27m) thick although only about 50 feet ( 15 m) is worked for building stone. The thirteenth century church at Hornton, Oxfordshire is a prime example of the use of the greenish brown variety. This popular stone was used far more widely than is generally realized. Hornton Stone was used for the reredos of Ampleforth Abbey Church, Yorkshire, in the church at Harold Wood, Essex, the War Memorial, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, the Moat House Hotel, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire (where fine nests of Terebratulids can be seen in the stone), and elsewhere. It was also used for his, Mother and Child (1924), Reclining Figure (1947), Square Form (1936) and other pieces (Figure 4.52). The stone was often used by the sculptor Henry Moore, for example for the Memorial Figure at Dartington Hall, Devon. The best building stone is the least oxidized because it breaks into large blocks up to several tons in weight. Forsyth Lawson) Road Figure 4.52 Memorial figure 1945-46 by Henry Moore, carved in Hornton Stone, Dartington Hall, DevonĬalcareous iron ore. from Somerset is found in Hampshire House, Bayswater (Courtesy of J. Figure 4.51 House of Hornton Stone (by Forsyth Lawson) Figure 4.53 Unusually used in London, Ham Hill Stone with Painswick Stone dressings and Stonesfield slate roof. ![]()
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