| P number: | P576352 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Ipplepen, Devon. Barton Quarries, Ipplepen, Devonshire. |
| Description: |
Label name: Ipplepen, Devon. Alternative name: Red Ipplepen. Specimen description: Grey and red with pink veins and patches. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 18 RED IPPLEPEN. I Barton Quarries, Ipplepen, Devonshire. A little further south, in Ipplepen itself, a village about midway between Newton Abbot and Totnes, there is an outcrop of Devonian rock which yields one of the handsomest varieties of this group of Devonshire Marbles. As the large slab shews, the red and grey ground-mass is interspersed with light pink veinings. Fossils are hardly recognizable in this example, but what can be seen suggest Alveolites. This marble was much in request in the middle of last century, and many of the ecclesiastical and other buildings in Devonshire, built and restored during that period, were decorated with Red Ipplepen. Good examples of its use as a decorative stone may also be seen in London. There are forty polished monolithic columns made of this marble in the National Provincial Bank, Bishopsgate Street (1866), and two columns of it are in the New Freemasons' Hall (1864). |
| 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: | 203.68 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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