LAVOUX french limestone
Lavoux French Limestone
Lavoux French Limestone is quarried in south west France and the blocks are processed at our factory just a few kilometres from the quarry.
The Lavoux quarry is an above ground quarry. The stone is suitable for flooring, cladding and masonry but is mostly known as one of the world’s best carving stones.
Lavoux Fin
Lavoux Fin, from the lower bench in the quarry is a uniformly white limestone with tiny brown/grey shell fossils and a very fine grain.
LAVOUX A Grain
Lavoux à Grain, from the upper bench in the quarry, is a slightly warmer colour but still very pale. The grain is fractionally coarser than the Fin bench. There is some infrequent faint honey coloured ribboning running through the stone.
This bench has become the ideal replacement for Caen limestone which has become difficult to source.
Several UK cathedrals are now using Lavoux à Grain instead of Caen stone.
LAVOUX AKA LEPINE
Lavoux was once known as Lépine. It is the same stone.
Lavoux French Limestone
Images of the different benches are here
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- St. Peter York Minster – Lavoux fin French Limestone carved by Martin Coward
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- St. Peter York Minster – Lavoux Fin French Limestone carved by Martin Coward
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- Lavoux a Grain French limestone for Canterbury Cathedral
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- Lavoux a Grain French limestone – heraldic greyhounds by Tim Crawley
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- Lavoux a Grain French limestone for Canterbury Cathedral
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- Lavoux a Grain French limestone – Lavoux a Grain Scan
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- Lavoux French limestone – Lavoux Fin sculpture by Andrian Melka
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- Lavoux a Grain French limestone for Canterbury Cathedral
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- Lavoux Fin French limestone cladding stone
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- Lavoux a Grain French limestone for Canterbury Cathedral
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- Lavoux a Grain French limestone Nina Bilbey carvings Canterbury
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- Lavoux French limestone quarry
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- Lavoux Fin French limestone carved capital by Fyfe Sands
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- Lavoux Fin – work in progress – by David Mitchell, Ireland
