Portland Bowers Roach

Portland Bowers Roach is a type of limestone from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, southern England, on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site.^[1]

Bowers Roach was used to construct parts of Broadcasting House, situated in Portland Place, London.

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References

↑ "Portland Bowers Roach". Federation Stone Great Britain. Retrieved 14 April 2013.

Further reading

Gwilt, Joseph (1842). An encyclopædia of architecture: historical, theoretical, and practical. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 469.

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