Artificial Stone: The Precursors, Contemporaries and Later Variations of Coade Stone

Further development of the early precursors to Coade artificial stone from the sixteenth century through John Dwight’s Fulham Pottery in the 1690s manufacturing high temperature fired porcelain and refractory stonewares, through the early patent of John Holt in 1722 to the wares of Blanchard and Blashfield in the late nineteenth century. Discussion of fired clays and of hydraulic and nonhydraulic lime-based cements, such as Roman cement, and notable landmarks including John Smeaton and the Eddystone Lighthouse.