The beauty of real Stone
There can be few more beautiful materials than natural stone. It can have any sort of texture; millions of colours, and of course a 1000 uses. for our stone fireplaces, we use limestone, mainly from quarries in Northern France, but we can use any stone that you would like to use assuming it is readily available. Often referred to as Jurassic Limestone, this particular stone is particularly beautiful. Its sedimentary layers settled down many millions of years ago, and as the sediment settled it included layers of different colours, giving some pieces wonderful swirls and patterns. A stone fireplace made from this stone is an incredibly beautiful thing.
It’s not just layers of colour that this stone contains: sometimes a sea shell, a pebble, a fossil was trapped within those layers, and millions of years later, when our masons are cutting into the giant blocks, we sometimes find these shells, or the indentation where they lay, and this adds yet another element to the beauty of your stone fireplace.
Of course we never know what a particular stone fireplace will ‘contain’ until it is finally cut: We may find something on the first cut, or the last. We may find nothing at all. Different seams in the quarry produce different things. Perhaps because that seam was on a bend in a river where shells accumulated, or maybe it was one shore line. We’ll never really know.
How intrigueing though, to have a stone fireplace that contains such amazing history!