Stone at Westminster.
T HE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT in London are, in view of their design, built of the wrong type of stone. This statement is made in a report issued by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and embodying the results of investigations carried out by the Building Research Station during the past six years. The dangerous condition of the Anston stone in the Houses of Parliament,” the report declares, “is due to the use of a vented stone for a highly decorated building and it is principally in the decorative and free standing features that restoration has become necessary. The museum of practical geology in Jermyn Street was Jpuilt of Anston stone at about the same time as the Houses of Parliament, but in classic style, with plain wall surfaces. Hence, the opening of the vents (minute fissures in the stone) has had no serious consequences.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 490, 27 June 1932, Page 6
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