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The Strategic Stone Study, which has been described as \u2018the most important project ever undertaken to identify and record the sources and uses of building stones in England\u2019 has been completed this March.<\/h3>\nThe Strategic Stone Study, which has been described as \u2018the most important project ever undertaken to identify and record the sources and uses of building stones in England\u2019 has been completed this March.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Stone Specialist<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n As it will now no longer be a study, it\u00a0 will be relaunched as the Building Stone Database for England, possibly later this year, possibly at the Natural Stone Show in London in 2021, says Clara Willett, Historic England\u2019s Senior Building Conservation Adviser heading the project.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have plans to promote this online resource more widely and as part of this we are asking users to complete a short online survey,\u201d says Clara. If you would like to participate in the survey, go to\u00a0bit.ly\/Stonesurvey<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Strategic Stone Study started as a response to the Symonds Report on the stone industry,\u00a0Planning for the Supply of Natural Building and Roofing Stone in England & Wales<\/em>, published in 2003. The report said there was no one source of what stones had been and were being extracted in the UK and where they had been used. The Strategic Stone Study was intended to correct that.<\/p>\n One of the aims of gathering the information was to help avoid sterilising important building stone resources by developing over them. The study identifies the locations of quarries from which building stones have come.<\/p>\n The Strategic Stone Study is a collaboration between what was at the beginning English Heritage and is now\u00a0Historic England<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0British Geological Survey<\/a>\u00a0(BGS). The BGS has put information gathered in the survey on to a Geological Information System (GIS) map that can be freely accessed at\u00a0bit.ly\/buildingstone<\/a>.<\/p>\n More than \u00a31million was made available for the project, which has included creating informative and useful regional atlases of building stones and their uses in England. They can be downloaded from\u00a0bit.ly\/stone-atlas<\/a>\u00a0and are also available on the BGS map.<\/p>\n