Old and new wearing well

Kirkstall Abbey is hundreds of years old, while Stonegrip, manufactured by Prismo Road Markings, is by comparison extremely new, but both are wearing extremely well. The abbey in the northern English city of Leeds dates back to 1125, and is one of the most complete examples of a medieval Cistercian Abbey in Britain. Over the past few years it has benefited from a £5.5 million (E7 million) National Lottery-funded investment, granted for the general upkeep of the structure and its surrounds. As a result, more
July 19, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
Kirkstall Abbey is hundreds of years old, while Stonegrip, manufactured by 6245 Prismo Road Markings, is by comparison extremely new, but both are wearing extremely well.

The abbey in the northern English city of Leeds dates back to 1125, and is one of the most complete examples of a medieval Cistercian Abbey in Britain.

Over the past few years it has benefited from a £5.5 million (E7 million) National Lottery-funded investment, granted for the general upkeep of the structure and its surrounds. As a result, more than 1,000m² of Prismo Stonegrip was installed to enhance the Abbey's pathways.

Special pink flint was added to Stonegrip's normal buff bauxite aggregate for the project, in order to match with the Abbey and its backdrop.

Stonegrip is a blend of coloured epoxy resin binder and natural pigmented decorative aggregates of stone, spar, granite, marble, bauxite and gravel, which are employed as a dressing.
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