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Tout Quarry (aka Tout Quarry Sculpture Park) is a disused quarry that later became a sculpture park, located on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarry stands at the north-west corner of Tophill, Easton and is located close to the cliff's edge and alongside the road leading to Weston and Portland Bill. It is found close to King Barrow Quarry which is further east. Now a Sculpture Park and Nature Reserve, the quarry displays a collection of various carvings and works in Portland Stone, carved into the living rock face e.g. ''Still Falling'' by Antony Gormley, extracted boulders, constructed from shale, or worked from the landscape. ==Background== Tout Quarry worked commercially from c.1750-1982 as one of eighty working quarries on Portland. It was worked for the famous Portland stone, used for important buildings in London and around the world, from St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace to the United Nations Building in New York. The 260-year-old quarry workings were last worked in 1982 for a boulder contract when 30,000 tons were excavated from the quarrymen's banking for sea defenses. Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust began the sculpture park in 1983 - a year later - saving the quarry from further mineral extraction with the creation of sculptures, and the park officially opened in that year. Many of the original site specific sculptures can still be discovered today, although some didn't last much longer than a year. Temporary works and installations also forms part of the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust yearly artists residency programme.〔 To date, Tout Quarry remains a creative and educational resource for visitors, schools, colleges and universities who come to learn about stone through the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust. In places around the quarry, there are numerous ravines leading to the cliff edge. The Tramway lines once ran through the quarry, taking stone waste to the be dumped over the cliff or taking block stone to Priory Corner where it awaited transport by the local railway for the ships at Castletown.〔 Lano's Bridge was built in the mid-1800s to carry a high level tramway taking stone waste to the cliff edge. After severe vandalism in the late 1980s, the bridge was reconstructed where it remains in good condition today.〔 The bridge is Grade II Listed. With further work to link up Portland's disused public quarries as part of the Portland Quarry Trail project, in 2010 it was decided to unblock an old tramway tunnel to provide a pedestrian walkway under the main road from Tout Quarry to Inmosthay Quarry. In addition, the route of the Merchants' Railway behind Tillycombe had been opened up as well as the tramway route into King Barrow Quarries.〔http://www.portlanders.co.uk/lano%27s-bridge.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tout Quarry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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