Cornish De Lank Granite
De Lank Quarry, near St. Breward on north-west Bodmin Moor, is the most famous of all the Cornish granite quarries and is still active after over 150 years. It is noted for its silver-grey even grained granite and has furnished large blocks for works such as Eddystone (1878-82), Beachy Head (1900) and Bishop Rock Lighthouses, Putney Bridge and Hull Docks.
The history of architecture in Britain has literally been built with granite and De Lank has been attracting and inspiring the country’s finest masons and architects for centuries. The list of buildings and monuments that have incorporated Silver Grey Granite reflects the greatest and very best and can be found in many of London’s most iconic structures and buildings including The Queen Mother Memorial; Trafalgar Square; The Princess Diana Memorial Fountain; The Royal Opera House; New Scotland Yard; Tower Bridge; The Royal Academy; Monuments to Churchill and Marx, amongst others The Seed at the Eden Project.
Notable work along the Thames completed with Cornish Grey Granite includes:
Thames Embankment 1864-74 Thames South Wall 1949-50
Limehouse Basin 1869 Tilbury Docks 1927-29 & 1960s
Blackfriars Bridge 1865-69 Putney Bridge 1883-85
London Bridge 1967-73 Tower Bridge 1887-89
Butlers Wharf 1989 Millwall Dock 1988
For over 150 years De Lank Quarry has supplied granite of exceptional quality with a consistency that is truly unsurpassed. It is noted for its silver-grey even grained granite and has furnished large blocks for civil engineering works as well as for architectural and monumental work.
De Lank granite is available in a number of finishes: Fine Axed for shaped and carved work; Honed for cladding and masonry; Polished for decorative cladding;Hand Punched for kerbs, quoins, lintels and memorials; Diamond Cut for masons; Dolly Pointed for street kerbs and heavy duty paving; Flame Textured for paving and hard landscaping.