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.
| c 1778 (title) Coade's lithodipyra or artificial stone manufactory. For all kinds of statues, capitals, vases, tombs, coats of arms, & architectural ornaments &c. &c. 1910 N. & 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. 1928 Connoisseur Oct. 81 (caption) Plaque in Lithodipyra, from a design by J. Bacon, R.A. installed on the east front of Hooton Hall, Cheshire 1788. 1954 Archit. 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’. |