| P number: | P576125 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Dark Hopton Wood. Hopton Wood Quarries, Derbyshire, England. |
| Description: |
Label name: Dark Hopton Wood. Alternative name: Hopton Wood Marble. Specimen description: Grey containing brown/fawn fragments (fossils). Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 2 HOPTON WOOD. Hopton Wood Quarries, Middleton, Derbyshire. This specimen represents a compact Carboniferous Limestone, in which the encrinite stems are dispersed through a matrix of comminuted shells and encrinital debris. It varies in colour from a light cream to a dove-grey; the example illustrates the latter variety. Hopton Wood Stone is better known as a material for ordinary building, but it is frequently employed for decorative purposes when polished. The lower beds of the, rock are generally selected when the stone is used as a marble, because they are more compact and better suited for polishing. Hopton Wood Marble is said to be capable of withstanding the influences of a town atmosphere, and there are examples which seem to bear out this statement, for instance the exterior of the Moot Hall, Wirksworth, erected in 1818, contains some. panels of this marble, and the details are still in very good preservation. The dark and light varieties are frequently employed in one scheme of decoration, and form a pleasing combination. The pedestal of the Gordon Memorial Monument, in Trafalgar Square, London (1905), is composed of Hopton Wood Marble. The corridors on the ground floor of the New Sessions House, London (1907), are lined with it, and there are examples of its use in the interior of the Imperial Institute (18ft). The staircases and balustrades of the Town Hall, Crewe (1846), are also made of this marble. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2004 |
| Photographer: | McIntyre, B.M. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | The marble is from the Walter Brown Collection, Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club. |
| Orientation: | Square |
| Size: | 216.96 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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