PURBECK LIMESTONE

A hard and durable limestone laid down approximately 130 million years ago, quarried and worked today using a combination of traditional skills and modern technology. Products include sawn and riven flags, setts and crazy paving; random walling for garden and retaining walls; dressed walling for cavity work or facing to blockwork; for rockeries, landscaping and water features.

Purbeck Stone Applications:

Interior and exterior uses include paving, flooring, kerbs, bridges, walling, cladding and rockeries.

Purbeck Stone Recent uses:

Riven flags, kerbs and setts, Poole quay, Dorset.

Channel, setts and kerbs, Poundbury Estate, Dorchester.

Rock feature, Natural History Museum, London.

Flooring New British Library at Euston, London

Sea defence Walling, Sidmouth in Devon.

Street paving in the City of London, Basingstoke, Southampton, Portsmouth and many other U.K Towns and Cities

Purbeck Stone Technical data:

Geology sedimentary, Jurassic / Cretaceous. Density 2650kg/m3. Porosity 3%. Skid resistance testing available upon request.

Appearance Colours range through white, white cream, cream, grey greyblue, brown and blue. The stone works is equipped with circular and dimensional sawing, polishing, dressing and splitting facilities.

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