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lithodipyra|ˌlɪθəʊdɪˈpaɪərə|
[mod.L., f. litho- + di-2 +Gr. πῦρ fire, as repr. ‘stone twice fired’.]
The name given to a kind of artificial stone by members of the Coade family when in 1769 they took over the factory in Lambeth where it was made (until c 1837) which stone (also called Coade stone) was claimed to have greater frost and heat resistance than natural stone and was much used for statues, monuments, and decorative work.
c1778(title) Coade's lithodipyra or artificial stone manufactory. For all kinds of statues, capitals, vases, tombs, coats of arms, & architectural ornaments &c. &c. 1910N. & Q. 2 July 15/1 A monument to Edward Wortley Montagu, made of Coade's Lithodipyra, is in the west walk of the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey. 1928Connoisseur Oct. 81 (caption) Plaque in Lithodipyra, from a design by J. Bacon, R.A. installed on the east front of Hooton Hall, Cheshire 1788. 1954Archit. Rev. CXVI. 296/1 George Coade died in 1770 and can, therefore, have had little to do with the development of ‘Coade's Lithodipyra Terra-Cotta or Artificial Stone Manufactory’. |