These beds are succeeded by a series about 120 fathoms thick, in which a grey gritstone predominates, alternating in the lower part with shale, and containing 6 seams of coal.
Below these beds is a mass of Mountain Limestone which has been forced upwards into an arch by tremendous pressure of rocks from either side, and has lifted up the Gritstone above to a height of nearly two thousand feet.
Up to almost the end of the thirteenth century the builders used a coarse gritstone such as is found five miles to the south-west at Brimham Rocks, and also a finer gritstone or sandstone that may have come from Hackfall.
The rebuilding of the east end in the Decorated period was the first operation in which limestone was employed, but much of the old gritstonehas been used again.
The yellow gritstone of the older work is contrasted curiously with the white limestone of the Perpendicular nave, and at the junction the later builders have left a jagged edge.
It is built in the ornamented parts and internally of Bath stone, the exterior being the gritstone of the neighbourhood.
Before reaching Derwent Chapel it has received the Westend, a considerable stream, and the Abbey Brook, another important contributor, foaming down a deep rugged ravine, with gritstone ridges.
The larger stream issues from thegritstone formation; the other comes from the limestone.
For three or four miles the river, a mere brook, passes through a gritstone gorge, with rocky escarpments above, boulders below, and a paradise of ferns around.
Where the steep crags cut sharply against the eastern sky is Teg’s Nose, famed for its gritstone quarries.
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