Fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England
Purbeck Marble is a fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south-east Dorset, England. It is a variety of Purbeck stone that has been quarried since at least Roman times as a decorative building stone.
PurbeckMarble is a fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south-east Dorset, England. It is a variety of Purbeck stone...
Purbeck, with both Purbeck Ball Clay and limestones being transported from the area by road. There are now no functioning quarries of PurbeckMarble....
floors in Europe for the use of dark Purbeck-marble trays, forming bold borders, instead of the more typical white marble. The pavement influenced later floor...
gastropods and viviparus winkles, similar to but larger than those making PurbeckMarble. There are a number of fonts made from this material and it was also...
the contrast of the dark Purbeckmarble columns. The Lady Chapel of Salisbury has extremely slender pillars of Purbeckmarble supporting the vaults, shows...
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and Lower. The Upper Purbeck comprises 50 to 60 ft (15 to 18 m). of fresh-water clays and shales with limestones, the Purbeckmarble and Unio-bed, in the...
a year[clarification needed]), with decorative elements carved from PurbeckMarble and local clunch. The plan of the building is cruciform (cross-shaped)...
of "marble"; and it is likely that it was similar to the Hardingstone and Waltham Crosses, but even more ornate and boasting some Purbeckmarble facings...
contains within it a circle of the earliest known surviving free-standing PurbeckMarble columns. It is probable that the walls and grotesque heads were originally...
Portland Purbeck stone – Limestone from Dorset PurbeckMarble – Fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous...
15th-century bell-tower contains the remains of a relatively plain, Norman Purbeckmarble font, which was lost from the 1850s to the 1920s, when it was found...
built at the time. In contrast to the decorative Purbeckmarble, Purbeck limestone, or more commonly 'Purbeck stone', has been used in construction locally...
as columns supporting the cloister roof, alternating with columns of PurbeckMarble. These large cathedral cloisters needed several hundred such columns...
The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the PurbeckMarblers is a series of events dating back many years which take place in Corfe Castle, Dorset. The...
wall paintings, including one of St Christopher, and a 13th-century Purbeckmarble font. William Barnes the English writer, poet, minister, and philologist...
grotesques. Unique to the transepts and chapter house is the use of Purbeckmarble to adorn the piers, adding to the richness of decoration. The chapter...
valley around Tyneham and there were salt-boiling, shale-turning and PurbeckMarble industries at Worbarrow Bay. South of the chalk ridge are remains of...
interest include the arcades, some 16th-century seating and a number of Purbeckmarble monuments. The Victorian and later stained glass is of poor quality...
in other areas. The two-bay Elder Lady Chapel, which includes some PurbeckMarble, lies to the north of the five-bay aisled chancel or presbytery. The...
also dates from the 15th-century. A 13th-century baptismal font of Purbeckmarble was where the infant Horatio Nelson was Christened by his father. The...
both freshwater and marine environments. The "PurbeckMarble" of the Jurassic period and the "Sussex Marble" of the early Cretaceous period, which both...
world. Purbeck limestone is a building stone which is quarried on a small scale in the Isle of Purbeck. Purbeckmarble, a particular type of Purbeck limestone...
glass and decorated floor tiles. There was also a portable altar of PurbeckMarble; it is likely that the Monastery of St Michael on the Tor was a daughter...
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