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, […]

Churchyard Cross to south east of St Nicholas' Church, Queenhill

Identifying Numbers

Historic England (Listed Building)1239081
Worcestershire or Worcester City HERWSM07623

Building

Site NameChurchyard Cross to south east of St Nicholas' Church, Queenhill
Building NameChurchyard Cross
Town or VillageQueenhill
CountyWorcestershire

Location

ParishQueenhill
BNG CodeSO
Easting386081
Northing236643
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Details

Building TypeStatue/memorial/sculpture
General Description architectural glossary3 steps, base and half shaft Medieval, upper part with crucifix 1904 in commemoration of William Dowdeswell of Pull Court
Construction Commenced15th Century
Construction Completed15th Century
Conservation StatusListed Grade II
Main Building MaterialStone
Date Created2015-04-09 10:58:54
Date Modified2017-05-25 15:48:12

Associated People

Name	Role
H.A. Prothero	Architect (1904)

References

Books/e-books

Author/s	Publication Year	Title	Publisher	Pages
Alan Brooks & Nikolaus Pevsner	2007	The Buildings of England: Worcestershire	Yale University Press	545