1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class I.: W. and J. Freeman

110. FREEMAN, W. and J., Millbank Street, Westminster, and Penrhyn, Cornwall.

Granites and stones.

[Obtained a Medal and Certificate at the Exhibition of 1851.]

W. and J. Freeman exhibit specimens of granites from the Cornwall and other quarries; building stones from the oolite of Portland, used at the British Museum, and numerous other edifices; stones from the Bath and Pains- wick quarries; magnesian limestone from Huddlestone, used in the erection of York Minster, and other churches; sandstone from Hare Hill, and other quarries in Yorkshire; flag and landing stones from the same locality, used extensively for the London footways and buildings; millstone grit, for bridge and dock works.

The works supplied by Messrs. Freeman include the docks of Keyham, Chatham, Deptford, Jarrow, Commercial, East and West India, Birkenhead, Liverpool, Hull, etc.; the harbours of refuge at Alderney, Dover, and Portland; bridges over the Thames and Medway; lighthouses at Beachey Head, Bishop's Rock, Guernsey, and

the Basses in the East Indies; the plinth and lodges in front of the British Museum, and the monoliths in the King's Library of that building; the plinth at the Royal Exchange, and the steps and landings for the terraces at the Crystal Palace; and the obelisk from the Exhibition of 1851, since erected in Chelsea College.

The polished granites in the obelisk at Scutari, and the pedestal for the statue of Carlo Alberto at Turin, containing stones upwards of twenty feet in length; the pedestal for the statue of Richard Coeur do Lion, in front of the Houses of Parliament, each by Baron Marochetti; and the monoliths for the mausoleum erected to the memory of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, from the design of Mr. Humbert, were executed at the polishing works connected with their quarries at Penrhyn.

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