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, […]

Gatepiers to Longfield Manor

Identifying Numbers

Strategic Stone Study info10017
Historic England (Listed Building)1348533
Worcestershire or Worcester City HERWSM02061

Building

Site NameGatepiers to Longfield Manor
Building NameLongfield Manor
StreetRowney Green Lane
Town or VillageAlvechurch
CountyWorcestershire
PostcodeB48

Location

ParishAlvechurch
BNG CodeSP
Easting404550
Northing273090
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Details

Building TypeWall/archway/gateway
General Description architectural glossaryLate 17th century stone gate posts and piers.
Construction Commenced17th Century
Construction Completed17th Century
Conservation StatusListed Grade II
Main Building MaterialStone
Building Stone Description Bromsgrove Sandstone
Date Created2013-08-19 00:00:00
Date Modified2016-03-18 12:33:00

Stones

Local Name	Bromsgrove Sandstone (Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation)
Geological Age	Triassic
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References

Books/e-books

Author/s	Publication Year	Title	Publisher	Notes
Alan Brooks & Nikolaus Pevsner	2007	The Buildings of England: Worcestershire	Yale University Press	Architectural descriptions, history and some details of stone

Company/Govt. Reports

Author/s	Publication Year	Title	Publisher	URL	Notes
British Geological Survey	2012	Strategic Stone Survey Worcestershire: Buildings	British Geological Survey/English Heritage	link	ID No. 10017