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, […]

Bridge 69, Worcester & Birmingham Canal

Identifying Numbers

Historic England (Listed Building)1297001
Worcestershire or Worcester City HERWSM33488

Building

Site NameBridge 69, Worcester & Birmingham Canal
Building NameBridge 69
StreetLea End Lane
Town or VillageHopwood
CountyWorcestershire
PostcodeB48

Location

ParishAlvechurch
BNG CodeSP
Easting403470
Northing275660
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Details

Building TypeStructure
General Description architectural glossarySandstone & brick bridge. Large semi-circular arch of ashlar with key- stone, brick parapet above with stone coping.
Construction Commenced1802
Construction Completed1802
Conservation StatusListed Grade II
Main Building MaterialStone
Building Stone Description Sandstone ashlar.
Date Created2013-08-19 00:00:00
Date Modified2015-11-10 12:35:04

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Masonry Style	Ashlar
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