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Heavitree stone is a type of red sandstone that was formerly quarried in the area and was used to construct many of Exeter's older buildings, including Exeter Guildhall. The Heavitree Gap , a pass through the MacDonnell Ranges in Australia, was named after Heavitree by the surveyor William Mills , [ 14 ] who had attended Heavitree School in England.
Heavitree Stone's heyday was in the 15th and 16th centuries. Churches dating from the period indicate that it was the preferred choice in Exeter. St Mary Steps is built from grand Heavitree Stone ashlar, as is St Stephen's, and the tower of St Martin's; Heavitree's St Clare's Chapel is a lovely example.
St Pancras church, built in the early 1200s, was made from red sandstone (probably from Exe Estuary) and purple volcanic material. It does in fact have a few bits of Heavitree Stone rubble mixed in; it is typical of the early period when it wasn’t intensively quarried, but people were using whatever was to hand.
The Old Deanery itself was four blocks and adjoining chapel. The chapel existed by 1200, but what we have now is 15th century, built of Heavitree Stone. The first block probably dates from the 13th century and is variously described as built of volcanic trap and Salcombe sandstone, or red brick and Heavitree Stone. Have a look and see what you ...
Over time this gravelly sediment built up and was compacted together. Over the next 50 million years, the Permian rocks were themselves overlain by smoother sandstones formed from smaller sand grains. Our Heavitree Stone was first referred to by Sir Henry De La Beche in 1839, as the ‘Conglomerates of Heavitree’. It is Permian breccia.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Heavitree like this: HEAVITREE, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in St. Thomas district, Devon. The village is suburban to Exeter, on the E side; was anciently called Wowford, afterwards Wonford, from a streamlet which runs through it; became for some time ...
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The church was extensively rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries, the tower following in 1541. This church was built out of local Heavitree stone, a distinctive red sandstone seen in many churches in Devon. [2] [4] [5] A lithograph of the medieval church in 1842.
