Stone quarried from a Lancashire quarry is being shipped to Barcelona to be used in helping complete Antoni Gaudi's Basilica de la Sagrada Familia.
The stone used for the bell towers on the Nativity and Passion facades is sandstone from Montjuic in Barcelona. The quarries in this region became exhausted and closed many years ago thus meaning original stone could only be sourced from demolished buildings.
So began a worldwide search for stone that would match that already used, and it is through this process that the sandstone from Brinscall Quarry, near Chorley, was selected alongside stone from other Continents.
The Armstrongs Group we have shipped many loads of faced stone to be further cut in Barcelona and then form part the ongoing facade construction. Read more about Gaudi and Basilica de la Sagrada Familia.
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