Inthe ground, this warm, honey-colored stone is soft and easy to quarry, but outin the air it hardens over time, becoming a sturdy building material.

The narrow winding streets are bordered everywhere with havelis, small palaces built of honey-colored stone.

Constructed in warm ocher marble to be compatible with the honey-colored stone of the Louvre facade above, the subterranean hall was usually vibrant with sunlight and tourists.

But even the Green Machine failed to rouse the fish again from its lie among the lavender, blue and honey-colored stones.

The buildings are constructed of poured-in-place concrete; some beams and columns remain exposed, though a great deal of the structures will be clad in a local honey-colored stone.

The honey-colored local stone, barrel vaulting, the maze of stairways and rooms, give a glimpse of how the more fortunate lived then.

Along its streets noble houses and palaces of honey-colored stone are graced by impressive coats of arms and balconies of intricately wrought iron.

Designed by Colen Campbell, the house is a vast Palladian villa of honey-colored stone, very much in keeping with the eclectic classicism of the pleasure grounds behind it.

When I first arrived in Oxford as an undergraduate, Magdalen Tower's honey-colored stone was black and crumbling, like the rind of a rotten Stilton cheese.

Shops stood shoulder to shoulder, some with mullioned windows, all with facades in varied shades of the rich honey-colored Cotswold stone.