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A History of the County of Surrey
… the north of the chancel. Field flints, with dressings of firestone (a little Caen inside), and in modern times Bath …
A History of the County of Surrey
… stone, but the internal masonry is chiefly in clunch and firestone. In Cracklow's view (1823) and in pre-restoration …
A History of the County of Surrey
… dates 1631, 1827, and 1903. The stone chiefly used is the firestone of the district, which while very good for internal … chamfered and rebated and have all been renewed, but the firestone weathers badly and is already crumbling to pieces. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… features: Plot wrote that its wells yielded rich golden firestone, used for carbines and pistols; that in Hoarstone …
A History of the County of Surrey
… barn or stable, very well built of black flints with firestone dressings. It has narrow loops of the same stone in … Church The church is built of field flints, chalk and firestone rubble, with dressings of firestone, the walls, excepting the chancel, being covered …
A History of the County of Surrey
… rubble and flints plastered externally, with dressings of firestone, and having the old Horsham slate on all the roofs, …
A History of the County of Surrey
… or mortar coat outside, and with dressings of local firestone and inside a little Caen. It presents still the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… more famous since as sources of supply. It is often called firestone, for it used to be in request for the beds of …
A History of the County of Surrey
… in places. The external dressings are mostly of clunch and firestone, with some Bargate stone in the later work, but … west wall retains its two original round-headed windows of firestone, and between them a large buttress has been added, … the upright. The hatched tool-marks on the Caen stone and firestone of this arch are remarkably sharp. In the east wall …
A History of the County of Surrey
… tower are square-headed chamfered slits, in the original firestone, placed immediately under the eaves of the spire. … chancel) modern times. 56 The original dressings were in firestone, but of these little is now visible externally, … cement (west wall) and general renewal in Bath stone. The firestone may still be seen in the quoins of the western …