Antique stone fireplaces and limestone mantels & chimneypieces in a wide range of different period styles, including Victorian, Georgian and Neo-Classical, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo examples.

  • Stock: 9197

    A late 20th Century carved Portland Stone Fireplace by sculptor, Jonathan Sells of Corfe castle, Dorset. Intricately carved with scenes of the evolution of man, the lower sections showing monkeys and gorillas ascending to carved naked figures. Signed to the reverse J. Sells.

    English, late 20th century.

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    width height depth
    External 65"
    165 cms
    49 316"
    125 cms
    6"
    15.2 cms
    Internal 40 316"
    102 cms
    40 316"
    102 cms

    Listed Price: £4,000 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 16360

    A simple and elegant bolection fireplace in a soft beige composition stone, resembling a polished limestone. The perfect addition to a contemporary or period interior.

    English, c.1930.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 53 78"
    137 cms
    39 58"
    100.6 cms
    5 316"
    13.1 cms
    Internal 43 316"
    109.8 cms
    33 1316"
    85.9 cms
  • Stock: 16228

    A grand and monumental early Victorian trumeau chimneypiece in the Renaissance Revival style. The blockwork trumeau is centred by an armorial and rests on a large freize carved with floral spandrels in the Tudor Revival style, over cantilevered, moulded jambs. A fine fireplace best suited to a grand interior.

    English, c.1860.

    Provenance: Hinton Old Hall, Shropshire.

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    width height depth
    External, inc. hearth 68 12"
    174 cms
    86"
    218.5 cms
    11 12"
    29.3 cms
    Internal 48"
    122 cms
    35 316"
    89.5 cms

    Listed Price: £12,000 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 16337

    An exceptional Gothic Revival stone chimneypiece from Woodchester Mansion. Carved from soft buff coloured Bath stone, this chimneypiece is a celebration of nature, with a floral undershelf beautifully carved in high relief. This rests on a frieze carved with five foliate panels. One panel is carved with a vine, the other a flowering lily, the central panel depicts two birds devouring grapes from a vine, the next, a British oak laden with acorns, and the final panel, a fruiting ivy.
    This beautiful carving is surpassed only on the spandrels, where on one side it is carved with a grapevine, and on the other a serpent is shown within a fruiting tree, evoking the story of Eve. The jambs are deftly carved with floral paterae and grapevines over moulded footblocks.

    This piece is an extraordinary survival from the unfinished Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire. By repute it was designed and made for the mansion but was never installed as the building project was left unfinished. AWN Pugin drew up early plans for this house, but the project was later taken on by Benjamin Bucknall. It is uncertain whether this chimneypiece was designed by Pugin, or was in fact designed by Bucknall, but it does share many stylistic similarities to the stonework throughout the rest of the house. Sadly after the patron of the project died, his Gothic vision was never realised in full.

    English, c.1860

    Provenance: Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 55 38"
    140.7 cms
    58 1116"
    149 cms
    8"
    20.3 cms
    Internal 33 1116"
    85.5 cms
    40 58"
    103 cms
  • Spectacular Jacobean Revival Chimneypiece Reserved

    Stock: 16322

    A fine Jacobean Revival chimneypiece with exceptional stone ingrounds. The oak chimneypiece is beautifully carved, the high shelf with four nude terms dressed with elaborate headpieces carved in high relief, whilst the frieze is carved with Jacobean fretwork in crisp low relief. The tapered jambs support two portrait endblocks and terminate in high footblocks, which rest over the stone. This encloses the spectacular ingrounds, which have a beautiful frieze carved with foliate scrolls and two opposing birds.

    English, 19th century.

    Provenance: A country house in Cheshire.

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    width height depth
    External 82 12"
    209.6 cms
    60"
    152.4 cms
    14 58"
    37 cms
    Internal 48"
    122 cms
    47"
    119.4 cms
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    Stock: 15909

    An antique Gothic Revival Hopton Wood stone fireplace of grand proportions. The wide shelf is supported by a carved fleur de lys keystone, which is flanked by trefoil spandrels over a Tudor arch. Twisting pilasters are mounted in front of wide, flat jambs over large footblocks.
    English, c.1860.

    Shown here with fire basket 15126, sold separately.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 72 12"
    184.2 cms
    49 18"
    124.8 cms
    14 316"
    36 cms
    Internal 37 38"
    95 cms
    36 1116"
    93.2 cms
  • Stock: 15474

    A simply carved Tudor Revival Horton Stone Chimneypiece hewn from five blocks of stone. The only decoration is the elegant spandrels featuring a carved decoration of Tudor Roses to the corners from which emanate trailing leaves. This frames the softly rounded opening. English, circa 1930.

    Notes: Horton stone is a limestone named after quarries at Hornton in north-west Oxfordshire. It is typically a rich tawny brown in colour, with natural variations.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 66 18"
    167.8 cms
    45 1116"
    116 cms
    5"
    12.7 cms
    Internal 42 18"
    107 cms
    33 1316"
    85.8 cms
  • Stock: 15324

    A simple and elegant bolection fireplace carved from a dove grey limestone. The polished and undulating surface reveals the subtle veining and mottling, which would be just as well suited to a contemporary interior as a period one. English, c.1930.

    Provenance: Removed from a property on Eaton Square, London.

    The Queen Anne style of the late 17th century saw the emergence of the simple bolection fireplace, often situated within a panelled room. It was far more simple in design that what had preceded it, and it was this striking simplicity that secured its enduring popularity.

    Width Height Depth
    61"
    155 cms
    47"
    119.5 cms
    3"
    7.6 cms
  • Stock: 15441

    A Victorian black slate arched fireplace, painted with intertwining Ivy and white Jasmine. The symbolism of flowers was a popular theme in Victorian Britain, with flowers adopted as symbols across the decorative arts. The art of floriography as it was called, was used to convey messages through the language of flowers. Ivy for example, represented eternity, fidelity and friendship. White jasmine, purity and amiability.
    Original hand painted decoration.
    English, circa 1870.

    Insert not included.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 61 1316"
    157 cms
    43 1116"
    111.1 cms
    11 1316"
    30 cms
    Internal 34 14"
    87 cms
    33 1116"
    85.5 cms

    Listed Price: £5,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 15440

    A Victorian black slate fireplace with corbels beneath a wide shelf. An abundant festoon of painted summer flowers adorns the frieze and more trail down each jamb. As with fireplace SNo 15441 the symbolism of flowers was a popular theme in Victorian Britain, with flowers adopted as symbols across the decorative arts. The art of floriography as it was called, was used to convey messages through the language of flowers.
    English, circa 1870.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 61 78"
    157.3 cms
    44 78"
    114.1 cms
    11"
    28 cms
    Internal 36 1316"
    93.5 cms
    35 58"
    90.5 cms
  • Stock: 6593

    The Dalquharran Castle Chimneypiece.

    A very rare, early Georgian, gently concave Portland Stone fireplace designed by Robert Adam and carved by the renowned Dutch stonemason Pieter Mathias van Gelder.

    A moulded shelf rests above a simple frieze centred by a panel carved in relief with a floor standing globe flanked by opposing sphinxes. The endblocks, with carved lyres and husk swags, sit above fern frond corbels terminating in festooned bucrane on fielded panel jambs raised on stepped footblocks.
    English, circa 1790.

    Dalquharran Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland, is regarded as one of the finest examples of Robert Adam’s Castle Style. His castles were unique in the respect that whilst the outside embodied the robustness associated with a castle, the inside was the embodiment of his restrained and delicate classical style. Dalquharran Castle was created for Thomas Kennedy of Dunure but is sadly now a ruin after the roof was removed in 1967 to avoid paying rates.

    The chimneypiece was originally installed in the round tower library of the Castle and epitomised Adam's classical elegance. The last image below shows it in situ in the ruins of the library. It is exceptionally rare to find such a piece and made even more remarkable as it survived virtually undamaged. There is a similarly fine chimneypiece at Seton Castle, Adam’s final project in Scotland.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 78"
    198.2 cms
    58 1316"
    149.3 cms
    12 58"
    32 cms
    Internal 47 1316"
    121.5 cms
    42 12"
    108 cms
  • Stock: 7444

    A fine limestone Baroque style chimneypiece with a boldly carved central cartouche on the panelled frieze flanked by acanthus style detail on the endblocks above tapering panelled jambs.
    French, circa 1880.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 61"
    154.9 cms
    43 14"
    109.9 cms
    11"
    27.9 cms
    Internal 42 1316"
    108.6 cms
    33"
    83.8 cms

    Listed Price: £7,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 9240

    A grand and impressive Palladian style chimneypiece in finely carved Portland Stone. The wide shelf carved in high relief with an undershelf of repeating acanthus leaf motif, over boldly scaled egg and dart over lambs tongue detail. The main ingrounds carved with continuous guilloche motif. The whole is supported on large, sturdy footblocks. Rebuilt using original 19th century elements. Provenance: Removed from a building in the City of London.
    English, late 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 112 1316"
    286.5 cms
    87 58"
    222.5 cms
    17 78"
    45.5 cms
    Internal 65 316"
    165.7 cms
    63 1116"
    161.7 cms
  • Stock: 12172

    A boldly carved Gothic Revival composition stone chimneypiece. The frieze, set beneath a generous moulded shelf with deeply carved Gothic tracery echoed on the jambs, is flanked by stylised turret endblocks above further turret styled corbels on the jambs which rest on simple moulded foot blocks. Once a pair with SNo 12171 now sold.
    English mid 19th century.

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    width height depth
    61 58"
    156.5 cms
    50 38"
    128 cms
    10 316"
    26 cms
    35"
    89 cms
    38 316"
    97 cms
  • Stock: 10848

    A Tudor Revival limestone fireplace surround with a moulded, stepped shelf above a Tudor arched opening and with oak leaf and acorn carved detail on the spandrels.
    English 19th century.

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    width height depth
    External 53 18"
    135 cms
    45 78"
    116.5 cms
    11"
    28 cms
    Internal 31 12"
    80 cms
    32 12"
    82.5 cms
  • Stock: 12734

    A large Victorian limestone fireplace surround in the Elizabethan style with carved shields and highly stylised mythical beasts carved on the spandrels. Image before restoration. English, early 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 61 14"
    155.6 cms
    49"
    124.5 cms
    6"
    15.2 cms
    Internal 48"
    122 cms
    41 14"
    105 cms
  • Stock: 12115

    A wide Louis XV style Baroque Revival stone fireplace mantel. The moulded shelf rests on a simple frieze above a gently arched opening and is supported by a pair of stop fluted jambs. French, late 19th century.

    Shown here with andirons SNo 9881 not included.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 65 58"
    166.5 cms
    43 78"
    111.5 cms
    11 1316"
    30 cms
    Internal 51 58"
    131 cms
    35 38"
    90 cms

    Listed Price: £8,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 14633

    A highly ornate and rare antique stone fireplace surround in the Louis XV Rococo style exuberantly carved throughout with abundant floral and foliate detail. The moulded shelf with bead and reel edging rests above an embellished serpentine frieze centred by a stylised rocaille cartouche with floral trails flanked by scrolled acanthus corners. Small shell cartouche top tapering panels on the jambs which rest on sturdy footblocks.
    Photos before restoration. French mid to late 18th century.

    Shown here with replica fire grate SNo 10920 not included in the price.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 62 38"
    158.5 cms
    46 78"
    119 cms
    17"
    43.3 cms
    Internal 50 18"
    127.3 cms
    34 58"
    88 cms
  • Stock: 13353

    A monumental French Renaissance style antique chimneypiece highly carved in creamy Caen Stone. The massive entablature, with its breakfront shelf centred by a podium above fruit and a grotesque mask, has a boldly carved frieze of mythical dragons and serpents amidst scrolling foliage. There are two large humorous figural carvings on the endblocks. To the left is the figure of a furtive peasant and to the right that of a lounging court jester. The whole is supported on a pair of free standing columns, with elaborate capitals, fronting the jambs.
    French, mid 19th century.

    Shown here with fire basket SNo 14374 not included.

    Notes: Caen Stone is a light and creamy yellow Jurassic limestone formed approximately 167 million years ago and quarried near the City of Caen in north western France. It was used in the building of many historic French churches and abbeys and was also partially used in the construction of Canterbury Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London in England.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 79 78"
    203 cms
    61 1316"
    157 cms
    23"
    58.5 cms
    Internal 45 1116"
    116 cms
    46 12"
    118 cms
  • Stock: 14593

    An unusually elaborate Rococo, Louis XV style Belgian black marble antique fireplace surround, with gilded detail throughout. The serpentine moulded shelf rests above a deep panelled frieze which is centred by an elaborate rocaille style cartouche and flanked by deeply carved large foliate endblocks. The jambs with large carved scrolling detail supported on shaped footblocks. Belgian, 18th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 87"
    221 cms
    51 316"
    130 cms
    14 58"
    37 cms
    Internal 64 316"
    163 cms
    41 18"
    104.5 cms
  • Stock: 14727

    A fine Gothic Revival Caen stone chimneypiece, attributed to John Middleton (1820–1885). This grand chimneypiece has double columned jambs in a garnet coloured Serpentine marble which support a Languedoc marble shelf. The fireplace bears attributes of Norman ecclesiastical architecture, with zigzag mouldings framing both the frieze and the arched opening due not only to Middleton’s passion for church architecture but also reflecting the great religious revival of the nineteenth century; the Oxford movement perhaps being the most famous.

    It is likely to have come from a grand Gothic Revival House in Cheltenham or its environs. It would have no doubt come from a room of grand proportions and it certainly would have made a magnificent centrepiece.

    English, circa 1870.

    Notes: Orphaned from a young age, Middleton was left only a modest allowance which he used to train as an architect in the North of England. He did however manage to travel to Europe, which influenced his style a great deal. Middleton went on to design a number of churches, residences and even railway stations in the favoured Gothic style of the period. Some of the most beautiful residences and public buildings he designed were in Cheltenham, including the Cheltenham Ladies College. Nearly every private residence he designed had a grand chimneypiece. These Gothic creations were hewn from both stone and marble, with grand columns and bold carving, not so different in design from gothic sedilia.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 96 18"
    244 cms
    61 1316"
    157 cms
    18 18"
    46 cms
    Internal 48"
    122 cms
    42 78"
    109 cms
  • Stock: 12675

    A Tudor Gothic Revival antique stone fireplace surround with a gentle arched opening and deeply carved recumbent stylised sea dragons on the spandrels.
    English, mid to late 19th century.

    Shown here with andirons SNo 12531 not included.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 58 18"
    147.5 cms
    46 78"
    119 cms
    6 14"
    16 cms
    Internal 40 38"
    102.5 cms
    37"
    94 cms
  • Stock: 14186

    A Gothic Revival limestone antique fireplace surround with a small central keystone linking the frieze to the gentle arched opening. The shelf is supported on six small brackets to the sides. A pair with SNo 14185 not yet on the website.
    English, mid 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 61 38"
    156 cms
    53 1116"
    136.5 cms
    10 38"
    26.5 cms
    Internal 35"
    89 cms
    41 12"
    105.5 cms
  • Stock: 8024

    A large and striking Flemish dark polished fossil stone Baroque Mannerist antique chimneypiece, with double contra scrolling tapering jambs terminating in tall moulded foot blocks, supporting a later barrelled integral frieze and shelf centred by a magnificent lions mask.
    Flemish part 16th century and later.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 90"
    228.6 cms
    77"
    195.6 cms
    20"
    50.8 cms
    Internal 66"
    167.6 cms
    66"
    167.6 cms
  • Stock: 9627

    A tall and elegant Art Deco bow-fronted fireplace surround in Saint Jacques Limestone. The curved breakfronted shelf over a high panelled frieze centred by a typically Deco stylised floral panel, flanked by square floral paterae, supported on fluted jambs.
    Scottish circa 1930.

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    width height depth
    65 38"
    166 cms
    51 316"
    130 cms
    8 14"
    21 cms
    43 12"
    110.5 cms
    48 58"
    123.5 cms

    Listed Price: £9,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 10720

    An 18th century French Baroque Louis XIV limestone fireplace mantel. The moulded shelf is integral to the frieze which is centred by a shell cartouche and is carved from the solid. The fire surround is supported on panelled jambs. French circa 1780.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 61 316"
    155.5 cms
    41 14"
    105 cms
    12 316"
    31 cms
    Internal 51 316"
    130 cms
    36 316"
    92 cms

    Listed Price: £6,700 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 12687

    An imposing carved Bath Stone antique Victorian fireplace surround and overmantel in the English Neo Baroque manner. The frieze beneath the breakfront shelf centred by a scrolled Heraldic cartouche depicting a plumed knights helmet, surmounted by an mythical beast, above a crown and a shield enscribed with the date 1860.
    English mid 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 99 58"
    253 cms
    74"
    188 cms
    13"
    33 cms
    Internal 70 18"
    178 cms
    44 12"
    113 cms
  • Stock: 12828

    A substantial Art Deco Fireplace in honey coloured English Horton Stone with it’s original insert and hearthstone. The central under-shelf carved with a stylised rosette echoed on the spandrels.
    Shown with fire basket SNo 12474.
    English late 1920s.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 60"
    152.5 cms
    44 14"
    112.5 cms
    6 316"
    15.7 cms
    Internal 40 78"
    104 cms
    37 316"
    94.5 cms
  • Stock: 12517

    An Italian Baroque Revival fireplace mantel boldly carved in classic Travertine Stone with a jutting descending undershelf above a gently curved opening and with tapering lozenge panelled decoration on the jambs.
    Early 20th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 64 18"
    162.7 cms
    50 78"
    129.2 cms
    9 14"
    23.5 cms
    Internal 47 316"
    120 cms
    40 1316"
    103.7 cms

    Listed Price: £8,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 12291

    An early Victorian carved limestone Chimneypiece with a large moulded shelf over a convex panelled frieze flanked by large roundels / bull's eyes, supported on rectangular panelled jambs. Image before restoration. English, circa 1840.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 64 316"
    163 cms
    56 14"
    143 cms
    4 12"
    11.5 cms
    Internal 32 78"
    83.5 cms
    40 38"
    102.5 cms

    Listed Price: £4,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 11659

    A simple limestone chimneypiece in the Gothic Revival manner with a generously moulded shelf supported on an arched frieze with inset panelled spandrels. English, mid 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 61 38"
    156 cms
    52"
    132 cms
    8 14"
    21 cms
    Internal 36 1316"
    93.5 cms
    40 78"
    104 cms

    Listed Price: £6,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 11340

    A Louis XVI antique limestone fireplace surround. The stop fluted frieze with a central floral detail echoed on the endblock paterae.
    French 18th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 60 12"
    153.7 cms
    43 14"
    110 cms
    11"
    28 cms
    Internal 50 316"
    127.5 cms
    35 1316"
    91 cms

    Listed Price: £5,400 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 10313

    A very small Louis Philippe fireplace mantel in limestone, simple & unadorned with fluted brackets supporting the frieze and shelf.
    French early 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 41 14"
    105 cms
    40"
    101.5 cms
    13 1316"
    35 cms
    Internal 26"
    66 cms
    31 18"
    79 cms

    Listed Price: £1,800 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 10543

    An attractive simple Arts and Crafts limestone chimneypiece in the Gothic manner, with delicate arched tracery mouldings on the integral frieze/shelf supported on jambs with similar mouldings and somewhat cantilevered integral brackets. English, late 19th century. ( Photo before restoration ).

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    Width Height Depth
    External 52"
    132 cms
    45 18"
    114.5 cms
    7"
    17.8 cms
    Internal 35"
    89 cms
    36 38"
    92.5 cms

    Listed Price: £6,200 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 9306

    A period Louis XVI Stone chimneypiece in attractive veined
    hard Pierre de Bourgogne with fluted frieze centred by a raised
    and fielded panel, circular floral paterae endblocks, supported on fluted and panelled jambs. ( photo before restoration )
    French 18th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 62 18"
    157.8 cms
    44"
    111.7 cms
    10 58"
    27 cms
    Internal 50 12"
    128.3 cms
    36 58"
    93 cms

    Listed Price: £4,200 (+VAT where applicable)

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Stone Fireplaces

Our range of striking stone fireplaces, mantels and chimneypieces spans a variety of different period styles, including Victorian, Georgian and Neo-Classical, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo examples.


A Brief Introduction to Stone Fireplaces

Stone can be an imposing material. It has been used to erect fortresses, cathedrals and pyramids. Five of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World were made from stone, so prized are the qualities and diversity of the material.

Nowadays, stone is perceived as rustic, the preserve of ancient farmhouses, châteaus and highland castles.

The properties of stone also vary enormously, ranging from the softest of limestones to the most durable of granite, and so the design varies to utilise the diverse qualities of the stone.

As such, unlike those made from many other materials such as marble, stone fireplaces are often architectural features rather than purely decorative. Sometimes set in to walls, the earliest stone fireplaces were constructed out of large blocks of stone forming rudimentary lintels and jambs.

Stone Arts and Crafts fireplaces were often used by architects such as Lutyens when creating interiors modest in appearance, with hand carved fireplaces and other details recalling the traditional form of earlier period styles.


Antique Stone Fireplaces

Stone fireplaces remain hugely popular, due to their ability to transform a room with an expressive echo of the past.

From the simple stone frame designed to capture and enhance the warm glow of fire, to a centrepiece etched with unique timestamps of bygone eras, a stunning antique stone fireplace can enhance any room - be it traditional or modern.

Our range of antique stone fireplaces is one of the country's largest and most varied. We endeavour to stock a fine collection to suit many projects and budgets.