Talk:St Peter's Church, South Somercotes

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Did you know... that St Peter's Church, South Somercotes, Lincolnshire, has been called "The Queen of the Marsh"?

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Greenstone

The wikilink from greenstone goes to greenschist, a metamorphic material, but the rocks of Lincolnshire are limestone (N-S through Lincoln) and sandstone further east. I'm not a geologist but suspect this greenstone will be one of the two, perhaps with a little ferric iron. Bolingbroke Castle suggests limestone and certainly coloured limestones (though not green?) are still sold for fancy flooring etc. On the other hand, the Lincolnshire Wolds are nearby and are a mix of chalk and sandstone, so the latter is a strong candidate. I'll try to find out more.TSRL (talk) 11:41, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The source says greenstone; that's English Heritage who should be reliable, but they have been known to make mistakes. If there's a better source that says something else, it can be changed.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 12:29, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I was confusing - I'm sure greenstone is the right local name, but what is it? Not greenschist, I'd guess. I'm questioning the recent DAB link here.TSRL (talk) 12:34, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you have a point; "greenstone" may well be a term for more than one type of stone that happens to be green. I have placed a query on Talk:Greenschist. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 14:08, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have also asked User:Geopersona, who at least has an interest in geology, to have a look at the query. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 14:13, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Following the note from Robert EA Harvey on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lincolnshire‎#Article for South Somercotes? page I've altered the wikilink to Greensand. Annoyingly, this article does not mention the Wolds explicitly, though it does say greenstone is associated with bands of chalk and clay (which the Wolds is), but it's otherwise helpful.TSRL (talk) 15:50, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(outdent) Suggest you look here. It seems that the correct name should be Spilsby Sandstone (or Spilsby Sandstone Formation). I took the term "greenstone" from the Heritage Gateway website, the text of which is copied from Images of England, published by English Heritage, a site that should be authoritative, but which I have not always found to be accurate. I think that by "greenstone" they mean green stone, or stone which has a green(ish) appearance. Perhaps if/when we have an available link to Spilsby Sandstone, we can use this, and achieve accuracy (for this and all relevant architecture in this region). --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 18:25, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

try the BGS http://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=SYS

and loof online for 'green iron silicate' or 'glauconite' --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 15:19, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

merge?

There is a lot of overlap between this article and South Somercotes and a merger is worth considering.TSRL (talk) 12:11, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As a Grade I listed building, and as a redundant church considered to be of sufficient importance to be conserved, IMO this church merits an stand-alone article, and the South Somercotes article itself should be expanded as appropriate for a Geography article.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 12:18, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

here is a link to comments from Robert EA Harvey on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lincolnshire‎#Article for South Somercotes? on this. Agree with RH and PV: make the South Somercotes article less reliant on the church by just wikilinking to this article and get a local to find more stuff, historical etc. Though these little parishes are a challenge.TSRL (talk) 15:59, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]