A Thousand Years of Building with Stone

Heritage buildings and their lost quarries

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A Thousand Years of Building with Stone is a 3.5 year project being run by Herefordshire & Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust and funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund. We are recording, cataloguing and untangling the history of stone use in heritage building across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

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Hidden History of Malvern College

Article by James Ferguson, a volunteer. After Great Malvern Priory, three of the most important stone buildings in Malvern are to be found in Malvern College: The first, the Main Building, is the work of the architect, Charles Hansom, in 1862; the second is the Chapel, by Arthur Blomfield in 1896; and the third, the […]
X-rays and Rainy Days

One of our big challenges on the Building Stones project is directly tracing a stone in a building to a quarry. Detailed fieldwork can be really effective for working out the range of rock types used and to give some idea of the areas these may have come from but, in general, for our project, […]

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Worcester St Clement

Building: 1313

Church. 1822-3 by Thomas Lee junior, but also said to be to a design by an otherwise unknown Thomas Ingleman. Chancel enlarged by local architect Frederick Preedy in 1879 (ref. also St. Stephens an...

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St Helen’s Church

Building: 1360

Medieval church. C15th. Tower rebuilt in 1820-21 and further restoration in 1857-63 and 1879-80.
New pulpit of Riga oak set upon a base of Caen stone, installed and opened on 14 Oct 1883. Designed...

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Worcester St Clement

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