Cathedral Stones Index

This page depicts the variety of building stones in the cathedral and their variety of uses. Click on the stones of interest. If you are interested in studying the stones in a particular area of the cathedral click on the area results at the bottom of the page.

Name of stone

Alabaster

Aubigny Stone

Bath Stone

Belgian Black Marble

Bethersden Marble

Caen Stone

Calc-sinter

Carboniferous Limestone

Chassagne Stone

Clipsham Stone

Doulting Stone

Fawakhir Breccia

Ferricrete

Folkestone Stone

Hopton Wood Stone

Kentish Ragstone

Lavoux (or Lepine) Stone

Marquise Stone

Northern stone

Onyx Marble

Plastic stone

Portland Stone

Purbeck Limestone

Purbeck Marble

Quarr Stone

Reigate Stone

Slate

Thanet Sandstone

Tournai Limestone

Tufa

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Infirmary cloister – examples of calc-sinter and Purbeck Marble

examples of use of Fawakhir Breccia near water tower although this artwork was removed (2022)

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