Allen, J. R L. (2019). Stone exploitation in Reading churchyards in the late 18th and early 19th centuries: St Mary, St Laurence and St Giles. Berkshire Archaeological Journal 84. Vol 84, pp. 143-153.
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Stone exploitation in Reading churchyards in the late 18th and early 19th centuries: St Mary, St Laurence and St Giles | ||||||
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Berkshire Archaeological Journal 84 | ||||||
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Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal | ||||||
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143 - 153 | ||||||
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154 | ||||||
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The historical archaeology of burial grounds yields valuable insights into the development of stone extractive industries in Britain and elsewhere when these relate to funerary monuments. In the Reading area, good evidence has been obtained from the Old Cemetery and the Earley burial grounds for the mid-19th century onwards. However, for the preceding one hundred years, the only evidence available is the legible memorials in the parish churchyards of St Mary, St Laurence and St Giles in the town centre. Upper Carboniferous York Stone, a buff coloured flaggy sandstone, is much in evidence during the earlier decades of this period and is likely to have come either by river and canal or by sea and river, mainly from West Yorkshire or Derbyshire. The opening of the Kennet and Avon Canal in 1810 and the Great Western Railway in 1840/41 allowed access to Pennant sandstone, a massive to flaggy Upper Carboniferous rock quarried in the Bristol-Somerset Coalfield and Forest of Dean. This material gradually replaced York stone for monuments and continued to be popular into the late 19th century. Limestones are represented by various facies of Portland Stone, including, in a few memorials, the famous freestone. Some monuments, chiefly chest/table tombs or sarcophagi, are made wholly of this material. It probably reached Reading from the Channel coast by sea and river through London. By the end of the 19th century, British granites and Lower Carboniferous Limestone had appeared in Reading burial grounds and to these were soon added various mainly igneous and metamorphic rocks from overseas, such as larvikite from Norway, gneiss/migmatite from Scandinavia and gabbro from southern Africa and India, a consequence of developments in international transport. | ||||||
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06 May 2020 |
