sussex marble造句

• Inside, there is a 12th-century font of Sussex Marble.
• Caen limestone, imported from Normandy was used with Sussex marble details for the second phase including the construction of the great church.
• The small rectangular medieval parish church of unknown dedication has a bell turret and Horsham Stone roof, and has a Sussex marble font.
• The oldest part of the church is the font, which is made from Horsham or Sussex Marble and dates from the 12th century.
• In the early 19th century, Sussex Marble quarried at Petworth rivalled many of the stones which were routinely imported from the continent, in both beauty and quality.
• Sussex Stone and its limestone equivalent Sussex Marble were formed around 130 million years ago in the Lower Cretaceous period when Britain was quite different from the shape it is today.
• A large alcove close by in the garden, entered through a portal of grey Sussex marble, formed an amphitheatre that contained an effigy representing Truth crushing a mask, again probably the work of Roubiliac.
• It yields stone, usually called Sussex marble, which is susceptible of being polished; but, as is generally the case in the Surrey examples of this stone, it is too friable for architectural work.
• 1599 . Altar slabs were removed by order of Queen Elizabeth I . The remains of a Medieval one of Sussex Marble, partially concreted over, can be seen just inside the chancel, by the screen.
• The " Purbeck Marble " of the Jurassic period and the " Sussex Marble " of the early Cretaceous period, which both occur in southern England, are limestones containing the tightly packed remains of the pond snail " Viviparus ".
• The Weald Clay occupies a belt of lower ground on the south and west of the Hastings Sands, it consists of blue and mottled clays with thin sand layers and beds of hard limestone, the " Sussex marble " with the shells of Viviparus.
• The fossil evidence in Horsham Stone and Sussex Marble indicate a diversity of life living on a broad, flat subtropical landscape . Towards the end of the Cretaceous period around 90 million years ago, most of Britain including Sussex would have been submerged beneath a tropical sea that was depositing chalk.
• The original pulpit, surmounted by a unique canopy tapering to 55 feet and dating from 1880, also remains : this, and the olive wood collected from the Mount of Olives; and the font, built of Sussex marble and installed in 1907, contains a variety of other stones and marble from sites such as Cairo and Pompeii, brought back to England by Wagner himself during his lifetime.