Manchester Building Stones

Route D

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D1 Town Hall Extension

Darley Dale sandstone

Building Stone in the City of Manchester - Description and quarry images
Microstructural properties
A Thousand Years of Building with Stone - Derbyshire Namurian Sandstones
Imperial College Rock Library - Description and photopgraphs
Geoscenic - 5 photographs of samples and 1 microphotograph
National Building Stone Collection - 31 photographs of samples

Hopton Wood Stone

Hopton Wood Stone - England's premier decorative stone - a 16 page conference paper, well illustrated, giving an account of the stone, its production and applications
Hopton Wood Stone - a website devoted to the stone, covering geology, extraction and use in building and sculpture
Derbyshire and The Peak National Park Building Stone Atlas - an English Heritage publication; Hopton Wood discussed page 4
World War I gravestones - story about a plaque to commemorate the production of 120,000 gravestones at Middleton-in-Wirksworth
Hopton Wood Stone mine - 18 photographs of an exploration of the disused mine
Geoscenic - 6 photographs of marble specimens and 1 landscape photograph, near Hopton Works
National Building Stone Collection - 29 photographs of samples

Ashburton Limestone

A Building Stone Atlas of Devon - an English Heritage publication; 'Ashburton Marble' discussed page 8
Devon's Rocks - A Geological Guide - "a simple introduction to the rocks of Devon"; Ashburton covered in Chapter 2, Devonian Limestones
Fossil Biological Reefs - a well-illustrated guide to reef limestones, with references to and illustrations of Ashburton
National Building Stone Collection - 16 photographs of samples

Town Hall Extension

Wikipedia
Town Hall and Library Renovation - a description of the project to renovate and link the Town Hall Extension and Library

D2 Town Hall

Gaisby Rock

Geoscenic - 2 photographs of Gaisby Rock quarries
National Building Stone Collection - 26 photographs of samples

Burlington Blue/Lancashire Slate

Burlington Slate Quarries - Wikipedia
Geoscenic - 3 photographs of the quarries
Lancashire Slate - product brochure, with notes on history, production and qualities of the slate
Cumbria and Lake District Building Stone Atlas - an English Heritage publication; Burlington slate discussed page 4
Cumbrian Slate - a page on the British Slate Forum website

Manchester Town Hall

A building that understands its place in history - Guardian video, 5 minutes
The Victorian Web - Images and descriptions of the Manchester Murals
Wikipedia
Tours of the Town Hall
The Town Hall bells

John Dalton

Biography - short biography, with a discussion of his major scientific contributions
Wikipedia
The Victorian Web - on the Town Hall statue
National Portrait Gallery - 15 images of Dalton

James Prescott Joule

Biography - illustrated and concise
Wikipedia
The Victorian Web - on the Town hall statue
Memorial - in Westminster Abbey
Discovery of Energy - 14 minute video on Joule's work on thermodynamics
Obituary - from Manchester Faces and Places, 1890

Abel Heywood

D3 Albert Square

Prince Albert

Wikipedia
The Victorian Web - The Prince Consort and his Legacy
National Portrait Gallery - a collection of 205 portraits

Thomas Worthington

William Ewart Gladstone

Wikipedia
Past Prime Ministers - gov.uk website
The Victorian Web
National Portrait Gallery - a collection of 315 portraits
Liberal Democrat History Group - biography

Oliver Heywood

John Bright

The Victorian Web - a short biography, with contemporary cartoons
Statue in Albert Square
Wikipedia

James Fraser

Wikipedia
Public Monuments & Sculpture Association
James Fraser, Second Bishop of Manchester - A Memoir, 1818 - 1885 - the complete text, 434 pages

D4 55 Princess Street

Jura Grey

juragreylimestone.com - a reference source, maintained by producers

D5 Pearl Assurance House

Portland Stone

Geological map
Virtual Microscope
Description of the various beds of Portland stone, with links to geology and history pages
Portland's Quarries and Its Stone - a student handout, PDF, 33 pages, 2.5MB
BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units
Building Conservation
Wikipedia
National Building Stone Collection - 111 images of various forms of Portland stone
Geoscenic - over 300 images in the BGS archive, covering natural occurrences, quarrying and use in buildings

Pearl Assurance House

Manchester History

D6 Building on the corner between Pall Mall and Tib Lane

Westmorland Green Slate

Honister Slate Mine - the last working slate mine in England
British Slate Forum - an informative website on the history, production, uses and geology of slate in Great Britain

River Tib

Wikipedia

D7 Ship Canal House, 98 King Street

Portland Stone

Geological map
Virtual Microscope
Description of the various beds of Portland stone, with links to geology and history pages
Portland's Quarries and Its Stone - a student handout, PDF, 33 pages, 2.5MB
BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units
Building Conservation
Wikipedia
National Building Stone Collection - 111 images of various forms of Portland stone
Geoscenic - over 300 images in the BGS archive, covering natural occurrences, quarrying and use in buildings

Ship Canal House

Wikipedia
British Listed Buildings - Grade II listing
Manchester Local Image Collection - 7 images, 1935 - 1956

D8 Between Brown Street and King Steet/Spring Gardens

Portland Stone

Geological map
Virtual Microscope
Description of the various beds of Portland stone, with links to geology and history pages
Portland's Quarries and Its Stone - a student handout, PDF, 33 pages, 2.5MB
BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units
Building Conservation
Wikipedia
National Building Stone Collection - 111 images of various forms of Portland stone
Geoscenic - over 300 images in the BGS archive, covering natural occurrences, quarrying and use in buildings

Midland Bank

Wikipedia
Historic England - Grade II* listing
Manchester History - exterior and interior images
Manchester Local Image Collection - 10 images, from its construction in 1930 forward

D9 19 Spring Gardens

Rapakivi granite

Rapakivi - a description, with photographs, on an Estonian geologist's website
Wikipedia
Building Stones - Rapakivi - the seventh of a set of 16 cards depicting building and ornamental stones. Produced by Fred Broadhurst, Richard Porter and Paul Selden for a University of Manchester distance-learning course

Precambrian Baltic Shield

Wikipedia
Geoversum - description in a geological excursion guide

Kotka

Finnish Natural Stone Association - location and stone types of quarries, including Kotka
Wikipedia

Spring Gardens

Wikipedia
The Murals of Spring Gardens - who designed the Post Office murals?

D10 11 Spring Gardens

Rapakivi granite

Rapakivi - a description, with photographs, on an Estonian geologist's website
Wikipedia
Building Stones - Rapakivi - the seventh of a set of 16 cards depicting building and ornamental stones. Produced by Fred Broadhurst, Richard Porter and Paul Selden for a University of Manchester distance-learning course

Spring Gardens

Wikipedia
The Murals of Spring Gardens - who designed the Post Office murals?

D11 106-122 Market Street

Larvikite

Wikipedia
Building Stones - Emerald Pearl - the second of a set of 16 cards depicting building and ornamental stones. Produced by Fred Broadhurst, Richard Porter and Paul Selden for a University of Manchester distance-learning course
National Treasure - a simpler version of the academic paper below
Geology for Society - Geological Survey of Norway Special Publication 11 - contains the paper "National treasure of global significance. Dimension-stone deposits in larvikite, Oslo igneous province, Norway", pages 5-18
Technical data

Market Street

Images - over 100 images from the Manchester City Council Local Image Collection, from the early nineteenth century forward
Wikipedia

D12 18-22 Mosley Street

Imperial Mahogany granite

Building Stones - Imperial Mahogany - the sixth of a set of 16 cards depicting building and ornamental stones. Produced by Fred Broadhurst, Richard Porter and Paul Selden for a University of Manchester distance-learning course

Mosley Street

Wikipedia
Around Manchester - a history of the street

38 and 42 Mosley Street (corner of Mosley Street and York Street)

Looking at Buildings - description of the Grade II* listed building
Wikipedia

D13 Royal Sun Alliance Building

Rapakivi granite

Rapakivi - a description, with photographs, on an Estonian geologist's website
Wikipedia
Building Stones - Rapakivi - the seventh of a set of 16 cards depicting building and ornamental stones. Produced by Fred Broadhurst, Richard Porter and Paul Selden for a University of Manchester distance-learning course

Imperial Mahogany granite

Building Stones - Imperial Mahogany - the sixth of a set of 16 cards depicting building and ornamental stones. Produced by Fred Broadhurst, Richard Porter and Paul Selden for a University of Manchester distance-learning course

Royal Sun Alliance Building

Manchester History - external photographs

D14 Brook Street Centre

British Listed Buildings - Grade II building, originally a manufacturer's warehouse, diagonally opposite Brook Street Centre

D15 81 Fountain Street

Botticino marble

Marbo - producer's website, with video of production, and links to photographs of the marble in use

66 and 68 Fountain Street

British Listed Buildings - Grade II Victorian commercial building on the opposite side of Fountain Street at the left turn into Booth Street

D16 Building at Mosley Street and Nicholas Street Junction

Portland Roach

An Urban Geologist's Guide to the Fossils of the Portland Stone
Portland Roach Stone - description of the stone on the Jurassic Coast website
Geological Map
Portland's Quarries and Its Stone - a student handout, PDF, 33 pages, 2.5MB
The Isle of Portland, Dorset - compiled by a former geology lecturer at the University of Southampton. Detailed, with numerous photographs
National Building Stone Collection - 11 images of samples of Portland Roach
Geoscenic - 8 images of quarrying, and 1 of use in a building

D17 City Art Gallery

Catlow and bay windows

Catlow Quarries - 3 pages, with many photographs, on the history of the quarrying
A Building Stone Atlas of Lancashire - an English Heritage publication; Catlow discussed page 13
Geoscenic - 1 photograph of the quarry, 1 of a nearby feature
National Building Stone Collection - 2 photographs of samples from Catlow Quarry

Manchester Art Gallery

D18 87-89 Mosley Street

Balmoral Red granite

Building Stones - Balmoral Red - the fourth of a set of 16 cards depicting building and ornamental stones. Produced by Fred Broadhurst, Richard Porter and Paul Selden for a University of Manchester distance-learning course

Hole in the ground - where once stood 87-89 Mosley Steet. Demolished 2015.