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    Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate originally obtained from the Middle Jurassic aged Great Oolite Group...
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    water from the springs, and Bath became popular as a spa town in the Georgian era. Georgian architecture, crafted from Bath stone, includes the Royal Crescent...
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    Quarry (redirect from Stone quarry)
    The word quarry can also include the underground quarrying for stone, such as Bath stone. Types of rock extracted from quarries include: Chalk China clay...
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    Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded...
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    The main spa building, the New Royal Bath, was designed by Grimshaw Architects and is constructed in Bath stone, enclosed by a glass envelope. It has...
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    Ralph Allen (category Mayors of Bath, Somerset)
    purchased local stone mines from his postal profits and had Prior Park built as his country house to show off the versatility of Bath stone, using the old...
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    Oolite (redirect from Egg stone)
    famous Portland Stone, and part of the North York Moors. A particular type, Bath Stone, gives the buildings of the World Heritage City of Bath their distinctive...
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    facade facing the entering visitor. Most of Bath's buildings are made from the local, golden-coloured, Bath Stone. The dominant architectural style is Georgian...
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    row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger, and built between...
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    It was designed by the Bath City Architect Major Charles Edward Davis for the hotelier Alfred Holland and built from Bath Stone, on the site of the Athenaeum...
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