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      • Heathstone
      • Sarsens
    • Cretaceous >
      • Chalk
      • Flint
      • Upper Greensand
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        • Purbeck Marble
        • Broken Shell Limestone aka Burr
        • Middle Purbeck
        • Cypris Freestones
    • Jurassic >
      • Purbeck >
        • Cypris Freestones
      • Portland Stone - Dorset
      • Chert
      • Kimmeridge Bay Dolomitic Limestone
      • Corallian
      • Cornbrash
      • Forest Marble
      • Fuller's Earth Rock
      • Inferior Oolite
      • Bridport Sands
      • Junction Bed
      • Blue Lias
    • Non-Dorset Stone >
      • Tertiary >
        • Bembridge Limestones - Isle Of Wight
      • Cretaceous >
        • Beer Stone - SE Devon
      • Jurassic >
        • Bath Stone - Somerset & Wilts
        • Caen Stone - NW France
        • Doulting Stone - Somerset
        • Ham Hill Stone - Somerset
        • Portland Limestone – Wilts (Chilmark)
      • Triassic >
        • White Lias - SE Devon
      • Carboniferous >
        • Carboniferous Limestones: Polished Black
      • Devonian
    • Building Stone Trails
  • Churches
    • East Dorset >
      • Almer
      • Blandford Forum >
        • Blandford Parish Church
        • Cemetery Chapels
        • St. Leonard's Chapel
      • Bournemouth >
        • Talbot Village
      • Canford Magna Chapel
      • Corfe Mullen
      • Christchurch Priory
      • Cranborne
      • Edmondsham
      • Hampreston
      • Kinson
      • Knowlton
      • Pamphill
      • Shapwick
      • Sturminster Marshall
      • Tarrant Crawford
      • Tarrant Keyneston
      • West Parley
      • Wimborne St.Giles
      • Wimborne Minster
      • Winterborne Stickland
    • Central Dorset >
      • Bloxworth
      • Cerne Abbas
      • Lytchett Matravers
      • Morden
      • The Piddle Valley >
        • Affpuddle
        • Alton Pancras
        • Bere Regis
        • Piddlehinton
        • Piddletrenthide
        • Puddletown
        • Tolpuddle
    • North Dorset >
      • Chetnole
      • Folke
      • Hazelbury Bryan
      • Ibberton
      • Leigh
      • Mappowder
      • Purse Caundle
      • Ryme Intrinseca
      • Tarrant Gunville
      • Todber
      • Woolland
      • Yetminster
    • South Dorset >
      • Coombe Keynes
      • East Holme
      • Kingston
      • Studland
      • Swanage
      • Upwey
      • Wareham St.Mary >
        • St. Martin's-on-the-walls
      • Wool
    • West Dorset >
      • Bothenhampton
      • Catherston Leweston
      • Eype
      • Loders
      • Monkton Wyld
      • St. Gabriel’s
      • Symondsbury
      • Wootton Fitzpaine
      • Whitchurch Canonicorum
  • Quarries, Pits and Limekilns
    • Abbotsbury area
    • Beacon Limestone Quarries
    • Inferior Oolite
    • North Dorset Corallian
    • Portesham
    • Purbeck in Swanage
    • Shaftesbury Sandstone
    • Uplyme Quarries
    • Upwey
    • Whiteway Hill Quarry
    • Non-Dorset Quarries and Pits
  • Other Historic Buildings
    • Bindon Abbey
    • Blandford Town Hall
    • Cerne Abbas (village and Abbey)
    • Cranborne Manor
    • Durweston Bridge
    • Ibberton Village
    • Kimmeridge Bay
    • Kingston Lacy
    • Lulworth Castle
    • Moignes Court
    • Non-Dorset Buildings
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Carboniferous Limestone

Carboniferous Limestone is used in Dorset as a building stone ( for example in bridge parapets, rock armour and gravestones). It is also used in the interiors of buildings, for example as tomb slabs or altar steps (see Belgian Black section)
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  • Home
    • About Us
    • Glossary
    • References and Sources
    • Recently added >
      • Recently added: Building Stone
      • Recently added : Churches
      • Recently added: Quarries and Pits
      • Recently added: Other Historic Buildings
  • Building stones
    • How we study building stones
    • Tertiary (Palaeogene) >
      • Heathstone
      • Sarsens
    • Cretaceous >
      • Chalk
      • Flint
      • Upper Greensand
      • Chert
      • Wealden
      • Purbeck >
        • Purbeck Marble
        • Broken Shell Limestone aka Burr
        • Middle Purbeck
        • Cypris Freestones
    • Jurassic >
      • Purbeck >
        • Cypris Freestones
      • Portland Stone - Dorset
      • Chert
      • Kimmeridge Bay Dolomitic Limestone
      • Corallian
      • Cornbrash
      • Forest Marble
      • Fuller's Earth Rock
      • Inferior Oolite
      • Bridport Sands
      • Junction Bed
      • Blue Lias
    • Non-Dorset Stone >
      • Tertiary >
        • Bembridge Limestones - Isle Of Wight
      • Cretaceous >
        • Beer Stone - SE Devon
      • Jurassic >
        • Bath Stone - Somerset & Wilts
        • Caen Stone - NW France
        • Doulting Stone - Somerset
        • Ham Hill Stone - Somerset
        • Portland Limestone – Wilts (Chilmark)
      • Triassic >
        • White Lias - SE Devon
      • Carboniferous >
        • Carboniferous Limestones: Polished Black
      • Devonian
    • Building Stone Trails
  • Churches
    • East Dorset >
      • Almer
      • Blandford Forum >
        • Blandford Parish Church
        • Cemetery Chapels
        • St. Leonard's Chapel
      • Bournemouth >
        • Talbot Village
      • Canford Magna Chapel
      • Corfe Mullen
      • Christchurch Priory
      • Cranborne
      • Edmondsham
      • Hampreston
      • Kinson
      • Knowlton
      • Pamphill
      • Shapwick
      • Sturminster Marshall
      • Tarrant Crawford
      • Tarrant Keyneston
      • West Parley
      • Wimborne St.Giles
      • Wimborne Minster
      • Winterborne Stickland
    • Central Dorset >
      • Bloxworth
      • Cerne Abbas
      • Lytchett Matravers
      • Morden
      • The Piddle Valley >
        • Affpuddle
        • Alton Pancras
        • Bere Regis
        • Piddlehinton
        • Piddletrenthide
        • Puddletown
        • Tolpuddle
    • North Dorset >
      • Chetnole
      • Folke
      • Hazelbury Bryan
      • Ibberton
      • Leigh
      • Mappowder
      • Purse Caundle
      • Ryme Intrinseca
      • Tarrant Gunville
      • Todber
      • Woolland
      • Yetminster
    • South Dorset >
      • Coombe Keynes
      • East Holme
      • Kingston
      • Studland
      • Swanage
      • Upwey
      • Wareham St.Mary >
        • St. Martin's-on-the-walls
      • Wool
    • West Dorset >
      • Bothenhampton
      • Catherston Leweston
      • Eype
      • Loders
      • Monkton Wyld
      • St. Gabriel’s
      • Symondsbury
      • Wootton Fitzpaine
      • Whitchurch Canonicorum
  • Quarries, Pits and Limekilns
    • Abbotsbury area
    • Beacon Limestone Quarries
    • Inferior Oolite
    • North Dorset Corallian
    • Portesham
    • Purbeck in Swanage
    • Shaftesbury Sandstone
    • Uplyme Quarries
    • Upwey
    • Whiteway Hill Quarry
    • Non-Dorset Quarries and Pits
  • Other Historic Buildings
    • Bindon Abbey
    • Blandford Town Hall
    • Cerne Abbas (village and Abbey)
    • Cranborne Manor
    • Durweston Bridge
    • Ibberton Village
    • Kimmeridge Bay
    • Kingston Lacy
    • Lulworth Castle
    • Moignes Court
    • Non-Dorset Buildings
  • Contact Us
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