| P number: | P576180 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Victoria Red. Middleton Quarries, near Queenstown, Co. Cork. |
| Description: | Label name: Victoria Red. Alternative name: Cork Red. Specimen description: Mottled pink to dark red/brown with brown/purple veins. Also known as Victoria Red. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 74 CORK RED. Middleton Quarries, near Queenstown, Co. Cork. The quarries yielding this marble are situated close to the market-town of Middleton on the river Ballincurra, about seven miles north-east of Queenstown. It is a variegated marble, the pattern being mottled and the dominant colours ranging from pink to brown. A few encrinital ossicles occur scattered through the mass. This variety, sometimes known among marble workers as Victoria Red, is chiefly employed for internal decorative work. Much of it is used for making mantelpieces. A good example of its use may be seen in the Dublin, Corporation Technical Schools (1900), where it is used for wall panelling. The red columns of the pulpit in St Paul's Cathedral, London, were made of it in 1861. It has been employed for the adornment of St Patrick's Chapel in Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral, London (1908). Examples of it may be seen in the chancel pavement of Bristol Cathedral (1895), and some of the small columns supporting the pulpit in Stetchworth Church, Cambridgeshire, are made of it (1876). |
| 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: | 194.59 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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