An Old Church

Mostly Limestone by the looks of it Woo

 

Probably Kent Ragstone?????
Which might well be a kind of limestone?

 

Good Call Pete Yes it is

You can tell from the sulphation patterns, the black areas that have built up in the areas sheltered from the rain, such as under the string courses

 

Yeah, that was what I was thinking

You know I've heard the expression Kentish rag all my life.
But it wasn't until now I've bothered to look it up, seems it has been used for the Tower of London to name just one place of note.

 

I knew you were

Not used it myself, but well aware of it as an important building stone in your area and beyond.

Lot of Chalk down your way but it's not much good for building apart from a re mineralised bed known as Clunch

 

I've occasionally seen old buildings of flint.
I'm guessing these come from the layer within the chalk?

 

Yep

Flint forms in bands within the chalk, it's mainly reef creatures that have been replaced by silica percolating down thru the rock, you can find sea urchins replaced by it, but mainly corals (we were on the same latitude as the Bahalmas when the chalk was laid down)

Much better building stone, hardness of 7 on the Mohs hardness scale, can be broken (Knapped) when freshly dug to give a flatish face, often used in Chequer work in the buildings across the Weald

 

Great shots woo - particularly like the first one

 

That's a lovely building Woo.

 

Yep, sorry Woo got carried away on the stone.
Good pictures mate.

Think they could do with some new doors.

 

Noooooooo!!!!! The doors have real character .... (look at the top picture carefully and the doors have aged to look like a silhouette of the crucifix)!

 

Oh yeah I didn't notice that,

Nothing a quick coat of creosote couldn't sort out though

 

You take pictures of em Woo, we'll work out what they're made of