Curated Profiles
Stone Library
Everything you need to know about the finest natural stones of Ireland and the United Kingdom, geology, character, applications, and where to source them.
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Isle of Portland, Dorset, England
Portland Stone
The stone of Wren's London — creamy white limestone that defined a nation's architecture
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Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Wicklow Granite
The stone that built Dublin, silver-grey granite from the Garden of Ireland
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Co. Galway, Ireland
Connemara Marble
Ireland's only true marble — ancient green stone from the wild heart of Connemara
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Gwynedd, North Wales
Welsh Slate
The slate that roofed a nation — fine-grained, durable, and unmistakably Welsh
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Co. Clare, Ireland
Liscannor Stone
Ireland's most distinctive flagstone — ancient seabed laid bare on the Wild Atlantic Way
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Donegal, Ireland
Donegal Quartzite
Silver-white metamorphic stone from the wild Atlantic coast
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Kilkenny, Ireland
Kilkenny Blue Limestone
Ireland's most prestigious interior stone — deep blue-grey perfection
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Somerset & Wiltshire, England
Bath Stone
England's golden limestone — the stone that built Georgian Bath and shaped an architectural era
Cumbria, England
Cumbrian Green Slate
The Lake District's distinctive slate — warm green tones and a characterful, split surface unique to the English fells
Derbyshire, England
Hopton Wood Stone
Derbyshire's finest limestone — a dense, cream-white stone that has graced English churches and civic buildings for centuries
Beer, Devon, England
Beer Stone
Devon's soft white stone — fine-grained, easily carved, and found in the greatest cathedrals of the West Country
South Wales
Pennant Stone
South Wales' hard grey sandstone — the stone that built the valleys and still paves their streets
Lincolnshire, England
Ancaster Stone
Lincolnshire's golden limestone — a warm, durable freestone with a 2,000-year history in the English heartlands
Rutland, England
Clipsham Stone
Rutland's golden oolitic limestone — the stone chosen to restore the Houses of Parliament and countless English country houses
Cornwall, England
Cornish Granite
The stone of Land's End — a rugged, warm-toned granite shaped by Atlantic weather and deep Cornish identity
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Aberdeen Granite
The Granite City's stone — Scotland's most iconic grey granite, hard, handsome, and built to last
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
Forest of Dean Stone
Gloucestershire's ancient pennant sandstone — dark, dense, and deeply connected to the western English landscape
County Durham, England
Dunhouse Buff
Durham's warm buff sandstone — a bright, consistent stone from the north of England with a long pedigree in civic and ecclesiastical work
Ireland
Irish Limestone
The bedrock of Irish architecture — warm grey limestone quarried across the island for over a thousand years
Co. Antrim & Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland
Irish Basalt
Volcanic stone forged beneath ancient Ireland — dense, dark, and built for the hardest-wearing applications
West Yorkshire & South Yorkshire, England
Yorkstone
Britain's favourite paving stone — a warm, gritty sandstone that has flagged the streets of northern England for centuries
Tuscany, Italy
Carrara Marble
The world's most celebrated marble — pure white Italian stone that has defined architecture and sculpture for two thousand years
Kent, England
Kentish Ragstone
Kent's ancient green sandstone — the stone that built medieval London and still defines the character of the Garden of England
Wicklow & Donegal, Ireland
Irish Granite
Enduring, speckled, and deeply Irish — built to last millennia
Northeastern Pennsylvania & Catskills, USA
Pennsylvania Bluestone
Devonian-age sandstone from the Catskill belt — the Northeast US default flagstone
Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Tennessee, USA
Tennessee Crab Orchard Sandstone
The Cumberland Plateau's tan-and-gold flagstone — the Southeast's default native stone
Sullivan, Delaware, Greene & Ulster counties, southern Catskills, New York, USA
New York Bluestone
The Catskill side of the bluestone belt — same formation as Pennsylvania bluestone
Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA (Hartford Basin)
Connecticut Brownstone
Portland Brownstone — the red sandstone of pre-1900 New York and Boston rowhouses
Coconino & Yavapai counties, Arizona, USA
Arizona Flagstone
Red, gold, and buff Permian sandstone from the Coconino Plateau — the Southwest US default flagstone
Shackelford & Throckmorton counties, Texas, USA
Texas Lueders Limestone
Cream and pearl limestone from the Bend Formation — Texas native dimension stone
Lawrence & Monroe counties, south-central Indiana, USA
Indiana Limestone
The dimension stone of American civic architecture — Salem Formation, Bedford-Bloomington belt
Rutland County, Vermont (with Washington County, NY across the state line)
Vermont Slate
The US slate belt — unfading greens, purples, and grays from the Taconic mountains
Rutland County, Vermont, USA (Proctor, Danby, West Rutland, Brandon belt)
Vermont Marble
Danby and Imperial — the domestic US white marble, from a single underground quarry in Rutland County
Pickens County, north Georgia, USA (Tate, Marble Hill, Jasper area)
Georgia Marble
The Pickens County belt — pink Etowah, white Georgia, and the dominant US monumental stone
Madera & Fresno counties, central California, USA (Sierra Nevada foothills)
California Sierra White Granite
From the Sierra Nevada Batholith — the domestic California granite alternative to imported slab
Yorkshire, England
Yorkstone Reclaimed
Centuries of character — warm golden sandstone from England's North
Mitchell, Yancey & McDowell counties, western North Carolina, USA (Spruce Pine Mining District)
North Carolina Mica Schist
Spruce Pine mica schist — the Appalachians shimmering metamorphic building stone
Ireland & UK
Sandstone
Warm, workable, and versatile — the classic paving and walling stone of Ireland and the UK
Cotswolds, England
Cotswold Stone
Honey-gold oolitic limestone from England's most picture-perfect landscape
Caithness, Scotland
Caithness Stone
Scotland's ancient flagstone — silver-grey Old Red Sandstone flags from the far north
Co. Down, Northern Ireland
Mourne Granite
Northern Ireland's mountain granite — strong, silver-grey, and deeply rooted in the Ulster landscape
Ireland & Belgium
Blue Limestone
The sophisticated choice for contemporary Irish projects — deep blue-grey limestone with exceptional density
Ireland, Wales & Scotland
Slate
Ancient metamorphic rock split to perfection — the classic roofing and paving stone of the British Isles
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England
Purbeck Stone
Dorset's ancient limestone — England's most historically significant freestone, quarried since Roman times
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