Monument record MDR13600 - Hardwick Hall Quarry B, Hardwick Park, Ault Hucknall
Type and Period (1)
- SANDSTONE QUARRY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
Hardwick Hall Quarry (b) was included in a report of a study into the potential to re-establish the roofing slate industry of the region. It is a large old quarry used as the main source of sandstone for the two Hardwick Halls. It is quite open - a few trees- probably working until the early part of the century. It is sandstone, just below Clowne Coal, mainly massive - rather conchoidal fracture - of a buff/ ochre colour. There is very little flaggy material. (1)
Hardwick Park Quarry is a RIGS. The Quarry shows the upper bed of 2 rarely exposed sandstones above the two-foot coal is exposed in the quarry immediately below the Magnesium Limestone escarpment. The flaggy nature of the basal Magnesium Limestone beds can be seen in the escarpment immediately south of the Hall. They outcrop as silty Limestone flags with thin bands of light brown and red clay. (2)
An Old Quarry is shown in Hardwick Park on the 1st edition 25" Ordnance Survey map of c. 1880. (3)
Modern maps show the quarry as disused. (4)
It is possible, by reference to the building accounts of houses, to locate the sources of stone as both great and small houses generally obtained their stone from within a three mile radius; often a quarry or quarries would be opened specifically to supply a building. The prominent buildings on the Permian scarp, Bolsover Castle and Hardwick Halls, obtained their stone from quarries opened specifically for the building work. Robert Smythson desiged Hardwick Hall for Bess of Hardwick as a large building with the revolutionary use of glass with work commencing in 1591. This and the earlier Hardwick Old Hall, a rebuilding by Bess of her brother's house of 1582-86, are both built of a Westphalian buff fine-grained sandstone, that below the Clowne Coal, quarried from just beneath the scarp off the drive up to the halls. (5)
Sources/Archives (5)
- <1> SDR21454 Bibliographic reference: Hughes, T (PDNPA). 1996. The Grey Slates of the South Pennines, Volume Two: The Quarries and the Slates. p 67, Quarry Number Q42.
- <2> SDR21462 Unpublished document: Mr L. F. Noe. 1993. Geology Locality Record: Hardwick Park Quarry.
- <3> SDR18789 Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). 1882. OS County Series, 1st edition, scale 1:2500 (c. 25" to one mile).
- <4> SDR20816 Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). Current Mastermap and 1:10000 series. 05/03/2013.
- <5> SDR23342 Bibliographic reference: Stanley, M. 1990. Carved in bright stone: sources of building stone in Derbyshire.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred SK 4617 6337 (99m by 106m) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | AULT HUCKNALL, BOLSOVER, DERBYSHIRE |
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Related Events/Activities (1)
- EDR3697
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Record last edited
Sep 1 2015 4:16PM