Bargate stone
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Bargate stone is a highly durable form of sandstone. It owes its yellow, butter or honey colouring to a high iron content.[1] In some contexts it may be considered to be a form of ironstoneScript error: No such module "Unsubst".. However, in the context of stone buildings local to the extraction of Bargate Stone, the term 'ironstone' is often used to refer to a darker stone, also extracted from the Greensand, which rusts to a brown colour.[2]
Sources
This stone was quarried for centuries in the Bargate Member of the Greensand Ridge, particularly where it is widest in south west Surrey, England. It occurs near the surface and was quarried in the hillsides near Godalming. Medieval quarries are still visible in Godalming, at the foot of Holloway Hill.[1]
Bargate stone is rare in current use due to its short supply.[2] Bath stone, Yorkstone and other similar coloured stone is sometimes used as alternatives, or to complement itScript error: No such module "Unsubst"..
Petrography
Bargate stone is typically a mix of sandy bioclastic limestone and bioclastic sandstone. The intergranular cements comprise ferroan carbonate.[3]
Use
Bargate Stone is found in many buildings in Surrey, approximately 250 of which are listed, and in two churches in London.[4] It is endemic to older buildings near the Greensand Ridge where it is found. Its 20th-century use tended towards coursed use of Bargate sandstone with bricks, or concrete, sometimes with ashlar dressings or mortar rendering.[5]
Examples
Early medieval
- The Keep at Guildford Castle.[6] It was a credit to the strength of Bargate that it was chosen for the main structure, standing on top of the natural chalk and Bargate stone bedrock, made it available by quarrying in the locality.
- Godalming Parish Church, Grade I listed assisted by Saxon features.
- Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Dunsfold
- St Nicholas's Church Compton, Guildford (Bargate rubble used, mortar-rendered)[7]
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin (12th-century tower only), Oxted in Tandridge District, east Surrey[8]
- St Mary's Church, (relevantly mostly in clunch from its own Quarry Street) Guildford[9]
- St James's Church, Abinger[10][n 1]
- All Saints Church, Witley, Surrey[11]
16th Century
Tillingbourne Cottage, Wotton, Surrey[12]
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
- St Catherine's School/Drama Studio, Guildford[15]
- St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London (York stone parpoints and dressings in Bath stone)[n 2][16]
- St Nicholas's Church, Guildford[17]
- St Michael's Church, York Town, Camberley[18]
- The Shah Jahan Mosque, completed in 1889 along with similar-coloured Bath stone, but a limestone not a sandstone
- Charterhouse School (completed 1872)[19][n 3]
- St Stephen's Church, Rochester Row, Westminster[20][n 4][21]
- Booker's Tower[22]
- Munstead Wood[n 5][23]
- Chinthurst Hill[n 6][24]
- Grafham Grange School, Bramley[n 7][25]
- St James' Court, Farnham[n 8][26]
- St Johns Church, Caterham[n 9][27]
20th Century
- The Pergola, Vann Park and Garden, Hambledon[28]
- Pinewoods, Oxshott[5]
- Tigbourne Court, Wormley (blocks with thin horizontal bands of tiles)
- Hascombe Court, Hascombe[29][n 10]
- Platform of war memorial, Bramshott, Hampshire[n 11][30]
- St Tarcisius Church, Camberley — the War Memorial Church to the British Catholic army officers who died in World War I. North Lady Chapel has triple arches and a stone reredos depicting the Virgin and Child and angels[31] Bath stone dressings[n 12]
- Orchards by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, Bramley[32]
See also
- Reigate Stone quarried from the Upper Greensand Formation in east Surrey
Notes and references
- Notes
- References
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- ↑ Advanced Search by text 'Bargate' less Bargate Farmhouse and Street/Lane/Bargate meaning road
- ↑ a b Pinewoods Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ The Castle Keep, Castle Hill (Guildford) Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ St Nicholas's Church, Compton Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxted Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ All Saints, Witley Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Cosford Mill Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Leith Hill Tower Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ St Catherine's 'School' Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ St Stephen's Church, Kensington Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ St Nicholas's Church, Guildford Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ St Michaels Church, Camberley Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Charterhouse School, Main Building Template:National Heritage List for England
Charterhouse School, Old Museum House Template:National Heritage List for England - ↑ Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ St Stephen's Church Template:National Heritage List for England
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- ↑ Munstead Wood Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Chinthurst Hill Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Grafham GrangeTemplate:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ St James' CourtTemplate:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ St John's Church, CaterhamTemplate:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Pergola Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Hascombe Court Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ War memorial platform, Bramshott Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Pergola Template:National Heritage List for England
- ↑ Orchards (park and garden) Template:National Heritage List for England
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