Bath Stone...

ANTIQUED

Bath Stone is an Oolitic Limestone composed of grain like fragments of calcium carbonate. During the Jurassic Period       (195 to 135 million years ago) when a shallow sea covered the Bath area, the marine sediment was laid down; each little grain became coated with lime as it was rolled around the seabed.

When highly magnified, the grains or Ooliths often reveal small shell or rock fragments along with skeletons of marine life! Captured forever within the stone.

Its beauty, close proximity, and manageability have ensured its appeal as a building and flooring material, and is literally the basic building block of Bath's lasting appeal.