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The top of the spire was struck by lightning in the 19th century and was carefully rebuilt stone by stone.

Men an Tol means 'stone of the hole'; this most famous of Cornish landmarks probably belongs to the Neolithic period.

This monument is an epic feat of prehistoric technology, bearing in mind the way the stones are put together and that the stones were brought from miles away.

By the beginning of the last century, the island was famous for its great naval harbour, its prison, and the stone quarries that produced the fine Portland stone.

The Millennium Stone, a natural stone boulder underneath which lie two time capsules from the local school and the Baptist chapel, was placed on the left-hand side of the street to mark both the millennium

The interior of St Peter's has piers and dressings of polyphant stone and a marble pulpit with alabaster steps.

Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.

The garderobe pits - the medieval toilets - are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.

The stone-mullioned windows and sturdy, stone-built construction mark the Bay Horse Inn in the tiny North Yorkshire village of Gayles, north of Richmond, as a building of some antiquity.

Beyond the coastguard station is the pier, built in 1835 with stone from a nearby quarry – the stone was brought here on a tramway.

The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire.

Quite early on, the motte's defences were improved with the building of a stone wall around it, and the earliest stone building appears to have been a hall in the western bailey.

Situated on the Great Ouse (Over actually means 'river bank'), the church of St Mary is lavishly built from Barnack stone, with an ornately decorated interior, and stone seats extending around much of

Here we see the towers - 'steel skeletons clothed in stone' as described by Sir John Wolfe Barry, the architect - not yet stone clad, and the upper walkway taking shape.

Old cottages have stone-framed windows and doorways, and new houses blend in colour with their crushed Ham stone concrete.

To extend the nave during this rebuilding, the porch was moved, stone by stone, some ten feet towards the main road.

Inside was a great stone circle enclosing two smaller circles.

This busy tidal basin, built in 1825, was once linked to St Austell by a mineral railway, and there was also a waterway for transporting stone, ore and china clay to the sea.

Steep Hill retains its stone flag footway and central roadway laid with stone setts.

The circle of stones in the foreground stand on the site of the gorsedd stones for the Abergavenny eisteddfodau, organized in the 19th century by Cymregyddion Y Fenni, the Abergavenny Welsh Society

The circle of stones in the foreground stand on the site of the gorsedd stones for the Abergavenny eisteddfodau, organized in the 19th century by Cymregyddion Y Fenni, the Abergavenny Welsh Society.

Portland stone is renowned throughout the world as a prime building material.

Portland stone is renowned throughout the world as a prime building material.

It is perhaps best known for its two prehistoric monuments: King Arthur's Round Table, a Bronze Age henge, and the former Neolithic stone circle and henge at Mayburgh, of which only one standing