shell-lime

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | 234 words | Copyright

shell-lime. Lime made from shells of cockles, oysters, etc. The spandrels of the domes over the aisles in St Paul's Cathedral, London, were made of brick covered with stucco of cockle-shell lime, which sets as hard as Portland Stone.

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