List of decorative stones

Onyx sculpture in the grounds of St Pancras New Church, London

This is a geographical list of natural stone used for decorative purposes in construction and monumental sculpture produced in various countries.

The dimension-stone industry classifies stone based on appearance and hardness as either "granite", "marble" or "slate".

The granite of the dimension-stone industry along with truly granitic rock also includes gneiss, gabbro, anorthosite and even some sedimentary rocks.

Natural stone is used as architectural stone (construction, flooring, cladding, counter tops, curbing, etc.) and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade. Natural stone is also used in custom stone engraving. The engraved stone can be either decorative or functional. Natural memorial stones are used as natural burial markers.

Africa

Marble

Asia

India

See Stones of India

Pakistan

Pakistan has more than 300 kinds of marble and natural stone.

Iran

Iran has more than 250 kinds of marble, travertine, onyx, granite, and limestone.^{[citation needed]}

Europe

Belgium

• Limestone
  • Petit Granit

France

• Limestone
  • Caen stone
  • Pierre de Comblanchien, see also Côte d'Or (escarpment)
  • Pierre d'Euville
  • Pierre de Jaumont
  • Tuffeau stone

Greece

• Marble
• Verde Antico

Italy

• Carrara marble
• Peperino
• Pietra serena
• Portoro Buono
• Travertine

Norway

• Anorthosite

• Larvikite

• Marble

• Quartzite

Poland

• Sandstone
  • Radków
  • Szczytna
  • Czaple (Heron)
  • Skała (Rock)
• Limestone
  • Dębnik
  • Kielce
• Granite
  • Strzegom
  • Strzelin
• Syenite, Granodiorite
  • Kośmin
  • Przedborowa
• Serpentinite
  • Nasławice

United Kingdom

• Chalk
  • Clunch
• Flint
• Granite
  • Aberdeen granite
• Limestone
  • Ancaster stone
  • Barnack rag
  • Beer stone
  • Clipsham stone
  • Corallian limestone
  • Cotswold stone (Oolitic limestone)
  • Forest marble
  • Frosterley Marble
  • Ketton Stone
  • Magnesian Limestone
  • Portland stone
    • Portland Admiralty Roach
    • Portland Bowers Basebed
    • Portland Bowers Lynham Whitbed
    • Portland Bowers Saunders Whitbed
    • Portland Grove Whitbed
    • Portland Hard Blue
    • Portland Independent Basebed
    • Portland Independent Bottom Whitbed
    • Portland Independent Top Whitbed
    • Portland New Independent Whitbed
  • Purbeck marble
• Sandstone
  • Banktop
  • Bearl
  • Blaxter
  • Catcastle
  • Corsehill
  • Corncockle
  • Dunhouse Blue
  • Dunhouse Buff
  • Hall Dale
  • Haslingden Flag
  • Heavitree stone
  • Locharbriggs
  • Ravensworth
  • Yorkstone
• Slate
  • Welsh Slate
  • Skiddaw Slate

Southeast Europe

Turkey

• Elazig Cherry Marble
• Burdur Beige Marble
• Emprador
• Marmara marble
• Mugla White
• Noche Travertine

Middle East

Israel

• Limestone/Dolomite
  • Jerusalem stone

North America

Canada

• Anorthosite

• Charnockite

• Diabase

• Diorite

• Granite

• Gabbro

• Gneiss

• Limestone

• Marble

• Monzonite

• Sandstone

• Slate

• Steatite (Soapstone)

• Stromatolites

• Syenite

Mesoamerica

• Tezontle — a volcanic rock used in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican architecture.

• Archaeological sites with tezontle structures are located in present day México and northern Central America.

United States

• Brownstone, a type of Triassic sandstone
• Granite, extensively quarried in Vermont, Georgia and New Hampshire
• Black granite – a common trade name for gabbro used as architectural material
• Austin limestone – a marble-like stone widely used as a building stone for interior and exterior wall cladding and interior and exterior paving

Oceania

Dunedin Railway Station and Law Courts, New Zealand, showing dark Port Chalmers bluestone and creamy Oamaru stone construction

New Zealand

• Oamaru stone — a creamy limestone mined in North Otago used for architecture and sculpture
• Port Chalmers bluestone (also called Timaru bluestone) — a dark basalt mined in Otago and Canterbury used for architecture

South America

See also

• Building stone
• List of types of limestone
• List of types of marble
• List of sandstones
• NIST Stone test wall — U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology—NIST.^[1]
• List of rock types
• List of minerals
• Quarrying
• Rock (geology)
• Stonemasonry

References

1. Stonewall.nist.gov: National Institute of Standards and Technology—NIST Stone Test Wall