Haysom Purbeck Stone is an 11th-generation family business specialising in the quarrying and working of Purbeck stone. Our masonry works are located in the heart of Purbeck, to the East end of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage site in Dorset. Lovell Stone Group is the local stone supplier that carries out the quarrying and processing of their beautiful Purbeck Stone in Langton Matravers, near Swanage on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset.
Our Purbeck stone quarries are known for their high-quality Purbeck limestone. We extract from a number of different stone quarries in the area, enabling us to offer the full range of Purbeck beds. Based in the heart of the Isle of Purbeck, we have been involved with quarrying high-quality Dorset limestone for over 90 years.
From our two working Jurassic Coast quarries; Swanworth Quarry in Worth Matravers and California Quarry in Swanage, we supply a wide range of dimension stone for building, as well as crushed limestone, aggregates, and. Purbeck Stone for walling, building, cobbles, paving and landscape features. Made in Dorset a building and Walling Stone Quarry.
Purbeck stone is an attractive limestone which can vary in colour and often has a very high fossil content. Coupled with the fact that it is extremely durable and hard wearing it makes and ideal material for a wide range of uses including building, landscaping, internal and external paving and fireplace hearths to name but a few. Purbeck stone refers to building stone taken from a series of limestone beds found in the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Group, found on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset in southern England.
The best known variety of this stone is Purbeck Marble. The stone has been quarried since at least Roman times up to the present day. Today, Purbeck stone is still quarried in the Isle of Purbeck using open-cast methods, and all of the quarries are based on the Southern ridge of the valley.
Many of these quarries are family-owned, having been worked by generations of quarrymen, with some quarries being worked by the same family from the mid. Our family has quarried in Purbeck stone from Father to Son on record since 1651, it is a family run business. All our stone is dug, worked and finished to a very high standard in our Quarry by skilled craftsmen.
Purbeck limestone is a hard-wearing, durable stone. Its appearance has a reputation of improving with age, making it suitable for the wide variety of internal and external uses that. W J Haysom & Son has operated St Aldhelm's Quarry and Masonry Works since 1934.
This quarry is the source of Purbeck-Portland stone (Spangle and Pond Freestone). Over the past 85 years many prestigious projects have been carried out in their workshops. T he stone that shapes the contours of the Isle of Purbeck and is today quarried for its properties as a building/ornamental material, has deep rooted origins.
Apart from the fact that it is part of the geology of the Purbeck hills and was therefore formed in a distant and evolutionary era, the stone has been a part of peoples lives, or should I say livelihoods, for many years. Today its.