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, […]

Font, Hereford Cathedral (Hereford Cathedral)

Media

- Font
- Plinth Detail showing cross bedding

Identifying Numbers

Strategic Stone Study info8011

Building

Site NameFont, Hereford Cathedral
Alternative Site NameHereford Cathedral
Building NameHereford Cathedral
Building Number10
StreetCathedral Close
Town or VillageHereford
CountyHerefordshire

Location

LocationHereford
ClusterHereford
ParishHereford
BNG CodeSO
Easting351000
Northing239785
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Details

Building TypeStatue/memorial/sculpture
General Description architectural glossaryNorman font with white sandstone bowl, yellow base of bowl is oolitic limestone. This rests on mosaic floor of coloured tiles. This rests on Old Red Sandstone plinth.
Conservation StatusConservation area, Listed Grade I
Main Building MaterialStone
Building Stone Description Stone: Sandstone, Lithology: Sandstone
Date Created2014-09-05 00:00:00
Date Modified2017-01-27 14:49:44

Stones

Local Name	-	-	Old Red Sandstone (Old Red Sandstone Supergroup)
Geological Age	-	-	Devonian
Lithology	Sandstone (White)	Limestone	Sandstone (Pink)
Occurrence	Carving/sculpture	Carving/sculpture	Other
Acquired Stone From	-	-	-
Proportion Stone	50%	25%	25%
Block Max Size	600mm	500mm	280mm
Block Min Size	-	-	-
Block Avg Size	-	-	-
Block Shape	Shaped/ Carved	Shaped/ Carved	Shaped/ Carved
Masonry Style	Trimmings/ carving	Trimmings/ carving	Ashlar
Weathering Condition	Discrete areas - severe	-	Unweathered/Discoloured only
Weathered Colour	Greyish patina	Warm yellow	Pink
Description	Bowl of font	Support of bowl is oolitic limestone	Plinth of font is Old Red Sandstone and shows continuous vertical tool marks.
Sedimentary Features	-	-	Weathered out mud clasts
Grain Size	Sand, medium (0.25mm-0.5mm)	Sand, fine (0.125mm-0.25mm)	Sand, medium (0.25mm-0.5mm)
Grain Sorting	Moderateley sorted	Moderateley sorted	Moderateley sorted
Fossils	-	-	-
Mineralogy	-	-	-
Acid Reaction	-	-	-

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References

Books/e-books

Author/s	Publication Year	Title	Publisher
DR G.J. H. McCall	2004	Explore Hereford Cathedral	EHT