| P number: | P213059 |
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| Old photograph number: | A14091 |
| Caption: | Parham House, West Sussex, Sussex. |
| Description: | This much restored Elizabethan house is built from Lower Cretaceous silstones probably quarried from the nearby outcrop. The foundation stones for the house were laid in 1577 by the two year old Thomas Parham Parham House is built largely of the local 'malmstone', which is a hard calcareous siltstone forming part of the Upper Greensand. The term malmstone, originally used to describe a soft chalky rock, is commonly applied to any of the fine-grained successions of the Upper Greensand in south-east England. The equivalent beds to the malmstone to the north around Reigate were once an important source of building stone exported into London and used in the construction of the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey. In addition to the malmstone the Wealden area yielded many types of building material from the shelly limestones, 'Paludina' limestone in the Weald Clay, sandstones, flints from the Chalk and locally, Chalk itself has been used. |
| Date taken: | Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 BST 1982 |
| Photographer: | Collins, R.E. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| X longitude/easting: | 506010 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 114200 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 252.69 KB; 1000 x 657 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 174 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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