Frosterley Marble Tiles

Britannicus Stone offers a British marble that is quarried from the banks of the River Wear in Durham. The dark grey to black marble known as Frosterley marble is another British stone that comes to life when polished. It has white fossils running throughout the stone produced from a tropical seabed some 325 million years ago. These fossils have been encapsulated within the dark grained marble to make it such a decorative stone. This marble has been quarried from the valleys around Frosterley since the 12th century and in the earlier years of discovery Frosterley was exploited being used in a variety of northern England decorative pieces for high status buildings such as Bishop Pudsey’s Great Hall, Bishop Auckland Castle and most famously Durham Cathedral. Typical Frosterley marble slab sizes are 1.5x 1.2m however this varies. It cannot be guaranteed that new Frosterley marble slab will match exactly samples given out.