Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate originally obtained from the Middle Jurassic aged Great Oolite Group...
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water from the springs, and Bath became popular as a spa town in the Georgian era. Georgian architecture, crafted from Bath Stone, includes the Royal Crescent...
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Quarry (redirect from Stone quarry)
The word quarry can also include the underground quarrying for stone, such as Bath stone. For thousands of years, only hand tools had been used in quarries...
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The main spa building, the New Royal Bath, was designed by Grimshaw Architects and is constructed in Bath stone, enclosed by a glass envelope. It has...
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Gothic Revival, and the last". The house is built of red brick, with Bath stone dressings and green roof slates from Cumbria, and has a distinctive cylindrical...
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Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded...
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agriculture and later, the wool industry, and remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It has several notable historic buildings, including the stately home...
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freestone and building stone. Quarries at Doulting supplied freestone used in the construction of Wells Cathedral. Bath stone is also widely used. Ralph...
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Royal Crescent (redirect from Royal Crescent, Bath)
row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger, and built between...
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facade facing the entering visitor. Most of Bath's buildings are made from the local, golden-coloured, Bath Stone. The dominant architectural style is Georgian...
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by the time of the death of the Duke in 1827. It is constructed from Bath stone, in a neo-classical style. The lease of the house was purchased by the...
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shop and coffee shop were established in Atworth in 2006. In 2013, a Bath Stone mine on the estate called Park Lane Quarry, first worked in 1880, was...
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Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines (category Buildings and structures in Bath, Somerset)
date from the 17th and 18th centuries and were the source of Bath stone for the city of Bath and elsewhere in the UK. A five-year project to stabilise the...
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Prior Park (category Grade I listed buildings in Bath, Somerset)
Bath, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The house was built in part to demonstrate the properties of Bath stone...
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Charles Dickens, along with the nobility of the time. The building, made of Bath stone, is arranged in a U shape. There are four main function rooms in the complex:...
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It was designed by the Bath City Architect Major Charles Edward Davis for the hotelier Alfred Holland and built from Bath Stone, on the site of the Athenaeum...
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Ralph Allen (category Mayors of Bath, Somerset)
purchased local stone mines from his postal profits and had Prior Park built as his country house to show off the versatility of Bath stone, using the old...
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conflict with the Soviet Union. It is in Corsham, Wiltshire, in a former Bath stone quarry known as Spring Quarry, under the present-day MoD Corsham. In 1940...
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tower is 105 feet (32 m) high and built from red sandstone with cream Bath Stone for ornamentation and emphasis. It consists of a spiral staircase and...
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Grand Pump Room (redirect from Pump Room, Bath)
of Beau Nash, Bath's master of ceremonies, in 1706, before the discovery of Roman remains nearby. The main block, built of Bath stone, was begun by Thomas...
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suggested that it may be Bath stone, the stone most used for monuments and sculpture in early Roman London and in Saxon times. The Stone is located on the north...
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Batheaston (redirect from Three Shire Stones (Bath and North East Somerset))
Bomber Command airfield. The hill is littered with former quarries where Bath stone was extracted. The 3 miles (5 km) £45 million A46 dual-carriageway Batheaston/Swainswick...
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irregular stone chamber lined with lead. In the 2nd century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building, and included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium...
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by Jan Baptist van Diest was subsequently put on display. The current Bath stone building, designed by Thomas Baldwin, was built between 1775 and 1778...
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Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) is a unitary authority district in Somerset, South West England. Bath and North East Somerset Council was created...
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Holloway Hill. Bargate stone is rare in current use due to its short supply. Bath stone, Yorkstone and other similar coloured stone is sometimes used as...
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Acid Bath is an American sludge metal band from Houma, Louisiana that was active from 1991 to 1997. Regarded as one of the first and most influential sludge...
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century. The castle was built in stone, initially pale sandstone from Redbrook, and later Old Red Sandstone, with Bath Stone used for many of the detailed...
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John Wood, the Elder (category Architects from Bath, Somerset)
was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud...
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