Note: A plethora of quarries that are or were at one time producing limestone for building are shown ‘Cotswold’ on the BGS map. Among those listed as active in 2001 are Campden and Chipping Campden, Stanley, Cotswold Hill, Flick, Happylands, Coscombe, Kineton Thorns, Huntsmans, Swellwold, Brockhill and Soundborough. Among the buildings where the stone has been used are Gloucester Cathedral, south wall, base ragstone, St Michael’s Church, tower, St Mary’s de Crypt, Southgate, St. John’s Church (1734), Church House, wall and dressings (all in Gloucester); Buttermarket, High Town (1861), Museum and Library, dressings to windows, Broad Street (both in Hereford); and St John the Baptist Church, Cirencester. Oxfordshire Stonesfield, near Stonesfield. Limestone. Used mainly for roofing. No Woodstock, NW of Light brown. Oxford, Oxfordshire. Bladon, near Oxford, Bladon. Limestone. Coarse-grained and used No Oxfordshire. brown with traces of mainly for rubble walling, sandy and blue. fissile. Sometimes used as an inferior substitute for Clipsham. New Bodleian Library, random coursed and hammer dressed (1939). Taynton, NW of Taynton. Limestone. Coarse-grained, containing No Burford, Oxfordshire. Orange-yellow or honey shells. shade. Radcliffe Camera, Radcliffe Square, upper part, Oxford. Headington, suburb of Headington. Limestone. Freestone, soft, fairly porous, No Oxford, easily weathered. Fully worked by about
Note: A plethora of quarries that are or were at one time producing ‘Cotswold’ limestone for building are shown on the BGS map. Among those listed as active in 2001 are Campden and Chipping Campden, Stanley, Cotswold Hill, Flick, Happylands, Coscombe, Kineton Thorns, Huntsmans, Swellwold, Brockhill and Soundborough. Among the buildings where the stone has been used are Gloucester Cathedral, south wall, base ragstone, St Michael’s Church, tower, St Mary’s de Crypt, Southgate, St. John’s Church (1734), Church House, wall and dressings (all in Gloucester); Buttermarket, High Town (1861), Museum and Library, dressings to windows, Broad Street (both in Hereford); and St John the Baptist Church, Cirencester. Oxfordshire Stonesfield, near Woodstock, NW of Oxford, Oxfordshire. Stonesfield. Light brown. Limestone. Used mainly for roofing. No Bladon, near Oxford, Oxfordshire. Bladon. brown with traces of blue. Limestone. Coarse-grained and used mainly for rubble walling, sandy and fissile. Sometimes used as an inferior substitute for Clipsham. New Bodleian Library, random coursed and hammer dressed (1939). No Taynton, NW of Burford, Oxfordshire. Taynton. Orange-yellow or honey shade. Limestone. Coarse-grained, containing shells. Radcliffe Camera, Radcliffe Square, upper part, Oxford. No Headington, suburb of Oxford, Headington. Limestone. Freestone, soft, fairly porous, easily weathered. Fully worked by about No
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