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75: Some nice granite re-use at St Paul’s Cathderal
St Paul’s, London’s Portland Stone cathedral, has some lovely new additions, benches made from granite blocks used in the construction of the Victoria Embankment in the 19thC and removed for the new London super sewer The Thames Tideway Tunnel in 2020. (1) [ (2) They have been put there by there by the City…
74: Return to Luxulyan: Rock Mill Quarry
When Building London visited the awesome Luxulyan Valley, [1] “the deep and romantic gorge known as the Luxullian or Rock Valley,” [2] with it’s incredible 1842 Treffry viaduct, in 2021, as the valley was a major source of 19thC London building granite, being used in the John Rennie’s 1831 ‘New London Bridge’, now mainly in…
73: London Bridge … at Kew Gardens!
Another set of the stones identified by Vic Keegan years ago are at Kew Gardens. Keegan states “John Mowlem, the building company which demolished the bridge offered some of the surplus granite blocks – it had around 200 in all with an average weight of two tons – to Kew Gardens. Kew took four of…
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