April 2018

Tournai ‘marble’ (s.p.b.) is not the only sedimentary limestone rock masquerading, by the skill of stonemasons, as a metamorphic rock (true marble, often imported from quarries in Italy). Purbeck ‘marble’ is a limestone rock quarried on the ‘Isle’ of Purbeck on the south coast in Dorset(shire), this rock also ‘takes a polish’ and was often […]

So the support by the Churches Conservation Trust for the proposals of the Taylor Review (s.p.b.) is very encouraging. It heralds a debate on the future of these 16000+ historic buildings from a secular perspective without in any way diminishing their ongoing religious function. Let’s hope the debate can remain measured and sensible. Recently asked by the