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Sutton Scarsdale Hall was built in the Baroque style on the site of an existing house between 1724 and 1729 for the 4th Earl of Scarsdale. The architect for the new hall was Francis Smith of Warwick, who skillfully incorporated the earlier building of about 1469 within his design.
Notable craftsmen were employed here. Edward Poynton of Nottingham carved the exterior stonework and the Italian master craftsmen Arturi and Vasalli carried out the fine stucco (plasterwork) detailing in the principal rooms, remnants of which can still be seen.
Grinling Gibbons is believed to have contributed some of the interior wood carvings. The cost of this splendid building left the Scarsdale heirs with depleted funds and they were eventually forced to sell the hall in the 19th century.
John Arkwright, a descendant of the industrialist Richard Arkwright, bought the hall, but in 1919 the family sold it to a company of asset strippers.
Many of its finely decorated rooms were sold off as architectural salvage and the house was reduced to a shell. Some rooms still exist: three interiors are displayed at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia.
A pine-panelled room is at the Huntington Library, California. It was offered to the Huntington by a Hollywood film producer who had used it as a set for a film, Kitty, in 1934. He had bought it from William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate and well-known collector.
The ruins of the hall were saved from demolition by the writer Sir Osbert Sitwell, who bought it in 1946 after he had heard of the impending sale to dismantle the stonework. In 1970 descendants of the Sitwells persuaded the Department of the Environment to take the building into guardianship and preserve it for the nation.
A recent programme of works has been undertaken by English Heritage to preserve and protect the fragments of the original stucco interior.
The ruins of Sutton Scarsdale Hall, with tantalising remnants of a once majestic interior, offer the visitor an opportunity to view the ‘skeleton’ of the building – impossible in more complete country houses. The approach to the hall today is along a narrow driveway. Its spectacular location on a hillside is immediately apparent.
The roofless hall is built of mellow sandstone and stands to its original parapet height. Some areas of stonework have been lost at this level, giving an almost castellated appearance from a distance.
The hall was built with two impressive façades. The eastern front is the grandest, with exuberant Baroque detail typified by attached giant Corinthian columns topped with a central pediment. The central bays housed the formal drawing room. Elements of the 15th century structure such as blocked window openings in earlier brickwork can be seen in this room and in the one behind it.
The slightly plainer north elevation housed the entrance hall, which contains remnants of stucco work. The remains of the paired Ionic pilasters with wreathed swags are clearly visible, as are the remains of the chimney pieces incorporating carved figures.
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Sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of loose sediments. Loose sediments become hard rocks by the processes of deposition, burial, compaction, dewatering, and cementation.
There are three categories of sedimentary rocks:
1) Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments produced by weathering & erosion of any previously existing rocks.
2) Biogenic sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments that were once-living organisms (plants, animals, micro-organisms).
3) Chemical sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments formed by inorganic chemical reactions. Most sedimentary rocks have a clastic texture, but some are crystalline.
Sandstone is the # 2 most common sedimentary rock on Earth. It's a siliciclastic rock, composed of sand-sized grains (= between 2 millimeters and 0.0625 millimeter in size. Most are quartzose sandstones (see the photo), which are dominated by quartz sand - SiO2. Exceptionally pure quartz sandstone is called quartz arenite. Other categories of sandstone include feldspathic sandstone (dominated by K-feldspar sand - KAlSi3O8) and lithic sandstone (dominated by sand grains composed of rock fragments).
Sandstones vary in color & coarseness. Common sandstone colors are brownish, grayish, reddish, orangish-brown, and whitish. Coarse-grained sandstones will feel the roughest when rubbed with a finger. Fine-grained sandstones are far less gritty feeling.
Some sandstones are hard, dense, and tight, which is the result of mineral cement (usually quartz) completely filling the spaces between grains. Many sandstones still have significant porosity between sand grains. Moderately- to poorly-cemented sandstones often have their porosity filled with groundwater, crude oil, natural gas, or a combination of these three fluids.
Sandstones have significant environmental and economic importance in human society. Many groundwater aquifers consist of sands or sandstones. Many petroleum fields have sandstones as the dominant reservoir rocks for oil & natural gas. Well-cemented sandstone is one of many types of building stone used around the world.
43098 skirts the coast with 43094 with 2U10 05:40 Penzance - Cardiff Central past the distinctive red sandstone of Devon. Tourists haven’t descended on the sea wall at half eight in the morning yet, only a handful of joggers and dog walkers.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - These sandstone formations are found just a few minutes outside of Sheridan. I've noticed them from the road before, but once I found out they're actually on public land I went to explore. They seemed to change shape as I walked around them.
Moab sandstone near Sovereign trail with Baptiste-trained teacher Rachel Nelson of Revolution Power Yoga in Vail. CO
The area around Torrey Pines is constructed of sandstone, so erosion yields beach sand, But the slopes above and ecology change accordingly, by the weather. La Jolla, California
Varina Patel ( www.flickr.com/photos/varina_patel/ ) pointed out these circles to us and has a collection of them herself I believe, but I had to get a few variations on them myself. I think these huge on canvas would be very cool.
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Halls Gap to the Pinnacle Loop 9km hike.
Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia.
Geology:
The Grampians National Park is an outstanding geological spectacle - a dramatic land-form with sweeping slopes, craggy eastern peaks and massive sandstone cliffs that contrast with surrounding plains.
The distinctive cuesta landform of the Grampians consists of abrupt escarpments and generally west-dipping slopes. The sediments, which make up the Grampians, were deposited about 400 million years ago (Devonian period) and are approximately 3700 m deep. They are composed of layers of massive sandstones, siltstones and mudstones which were folded and tilted a few millions years later.
Some sources says volcanic activity occurred around 395 million years ago as well with granitic magma intruded into the Grampians sediments, resulting in deeply weathered batholiths, dykes and sills.
Have a look at satellite map of this place - amazing.
The sandstone formation stands 348 m (1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying underground, and has a total perimeter of 9.4 km (5.8 mi). Uluru is notable for appearing to change colour at different times of the day and year, most notably when it glows red at dawn and sunset. The reddish colour in the rock derives from iron oxide in the sandstone.
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Passing Pandora's Pond on the Sandstone Estates.
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The National Museum of Cambodia at Phnom Penh exhibits a 9th century sandstone Vishnu from Bakong near Siem Reap.
The eastern pier of the Victoria Bridge, also known as the Nepean River Rail bridge, near Penrith is built of Sydney Sandstone. This is the original 1867 rail bridge and is now a road bridge. It is heritage listed. The replacement 1907 dual track rail bridge can be glimpsed behind.
The Marafa Depression, also known as Hell’s Kitchen, is a sandstone canyon in Marafa, outside of Malindi, Kenya. It is locally known as Nyari, “the place broken by itself.” It was once a great sandstone ridge that was eroded away by water and wind into a series of jagged gorges. The layer-cake colors of the sandstone reveal whites, pinks, oranges, and deep crimsons, making the gorge particularly striking at sundown.
This is part of the Upper Antelope Canyon, a walk through red coloured sandstone that was created by water flows.
The first time I visited Seamill beach, I found this huge lump of sandstone poking through the sand, pretty much on it's own as far as I can tell as there are no other rocks that look even remotely similar.
I knew I wanted a decent shot of it, but time and time again when I went back something was wrong. The tide was too far out, the light was in the wrong direction, the light was too weak, the light was too strong, there was no bloody light sometimes!
Patience pays off though, and I got good conditions for about 3 minutes this evening, so I'm quite happy. I just love the way the rock glows in the sun.
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