How To Use Ashlar In A Sentence
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Mr Wilshaw promotes the idea of replacement of the damaged stones with reclaimed ashlars.
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Finally, still other portions of this same Mycenaean wall show on the outside a near approach to what is called ashlar masonry, in which the blocks are rectangular and laid in even horizontal courses.
A History of Greek Art
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The building has an ashlar stone base with an arcade at ground level.
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The ground or basement story of the Alabama capitol was constructed of traditional masonry consisting of ashlar walls made of locally quarried sandstone.
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Walls of local ashlar to the left and a flush stone dado to the right augment this feeling of sedimentation, of Baldeweg's building being literally of the earth.
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The intended realization of the church in brick was changed to Portland-stone ashlaring.
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The tombs were made of ashlars with dry joints, or of bricks and mortar.
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The important role plays not only quality of manufacturing of ornamental elements, but also the correct engineering solution of fastening of ashlaring and architectural details on a facade of a building.
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The forum plaza is bounded on its east by a wall constructed in segments of ashlars and rough stones.
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The church is constructed of ashlaring walls with a square west tower, rectangular nave and lower rectangular chancel and apse.
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In early times the walls were very much thicker, composed of hewn stone, making a kind of casing at each side, called ashlar, the interval being filled with rubble masonry cemented with lime and loam.
Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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The interior, which was restored in 1880 by Giuseppe Patricolo, displays ashlaring worked with the utmost care.
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There are numerous cracks in ashlar stones on the external elevation.
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_ A church, with central spire, a cross at each gable end, masoned walls imitating ashlar-work, and traceried windows, standing on a ship with a castle at each end, that on the left pointed, that on the right square, on the sea.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less
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The assembly of the whole structure (including the ashlaring and the assembly laths for the tile) will last, taking into account the size of the house, between 3 and 5 days.
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Some of the ashlars, including those on either side of the doors, were found to have been robbed out.
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It is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings on a granite plinth.
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There was, on the one hand, the precise architecture, the cold ashlar blocks; on the other, the deep personal loss.
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While easily discernible in plan, the shift from stack bond to traditionally bonded ashlar is too subtle to distinguish the two forms from the street.
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The tower certainly stood on the site of the present tower, as Roman ashlaring has been discovered on the north-west side of the north-west tower pier, above the vault of the side aisle, and also portions of a shaft with a base, which probably belonged to the Norman clerestory.
The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
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Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal The Niven House has stucco exterior scored to resemble ashlar block and a marble, checkerboard-patterned porch, which is original to the home.
Tuscany on the Hudson
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Construction technique, the way the ashlars are worked and the profiles of an archivolt are the only means of dating the discovered walls, and thus the entire building.
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The graffito ashlaring was last restored during the general reconstruction in 1992 together with the renovation of the two original vaulted halls on the ground-floor.
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The younger man's boot scraped along the surface of the tower wall, finding a narrow crevice between the blocks of ashlar that might support him.
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In our work at the site some thirty or so years later we recorded significant damage resulting from bulldozing and found three ashlar blocks.
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As will be seen shortly, this ramp was used to lower ashlars for transport under the perimeter of Cheops.
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This perpenstone, or bondstone, is the same as the Parping Ashlar of Glocestershire - a stone which passes through a wall and shows a fair face on either side.
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The defensive wall was of fine ashlar masonry with a pronounced batter.
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The church of Santa María is made of ashlaring.
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Winchester the original piers were either clothed with new ashlaring, or the old ashlaring was wrought into new forms and mouldings where possible; while in Canterbury the piers were altogether rebuilt.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
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The courses just laid consist of a short and a tall ashlar layer, crowned by a stylobate, bringing the current height of the structure to nearly eight m.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 3
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The Niven House has stucco exterior scored to resemble ashlar block and a marble, checkerboard-patterned porch, which is original to the home.
A Touch of Tuscany Revived in Newburgh
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The two-bedroomed apartments, spread over four floors, benefit from a unique setting and feature a facade of ashlar stones with carved features.
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The ray tracing rendering has been applied on single stones, pudding-stone and travertine ashlars.
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The church itself, begun in the 1150s, has an eleven-bay nave of finely cut ashlar masonry, the seven westernmost bays for lay brothers and those to the east for choir monks.
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It should be remembered that the buildings of Regency Newcastle differ from Nash's London by being of finely cut ashlar, as opposed to the capital's stucco.
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These exterior walls had often padded ashlars and were separated by 4 m. from each other.
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The only defect of it is an unreal scheme of the parterre done by ashlaring.
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The defensive wall was of fine ashlar masonry with a pronounced batter.
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In the courtrooms, fabric-wrapped acoustical panels give the walls an ashlar pattern similar to that of the exterior.
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These would be foundations of granite ashlars on top of the rock on the first row of walls.
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The substantial walls, made of ashlar facings and rubble cores, can be up to 2 m. thick, and in places they have survived to a height of more than 2 m.
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A handsome ivy-clad ashlar mansion, the house was built overlooking the Blackwater Valley in the 1770s.
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So he abode in prison, and when they brought out the prisoners, to cut ashlar from the quarries they took Sa’id with them, and he wrought with the rest.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Sometimes he might have been found shaping the mullions of a country mansion, sometimes setting the parapet of a town-hall, sometimes ashlaring an hotel at Sandbourne, sometimes a museum at Casterbridge, sometimes as far down as Exonbury, sometimes at Stoke-Barehills.
Jude the Obscure
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The two courtyards use an existing fan arched gate (formerly closed with granite ashlar facing) on Diamond Street.
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Scrutinize those buildings, touch those surfaces and you'll discover a disconcerting number of restored façades, reassembled colonnades and a positive glorying in what the Italians call "feigned" materials: simulated marble, cleverly disguised concrete and a cunning assortment of ashlar, or thin stone slabs applied to resemble weighty blocks.
The Heirloom City
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As in his earlier capitols, Nichols constructed the walls of the lower floor out of local sandstone but built the walls of the upper floors out of brick covered with stucco, scored, and painted to resemble smooth ashlar.
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Over the centuries, the fine straight lines and margins of some of the ashlars have eroded away.
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Other citizens hauled away truckloads of carved ashlar and flagstones to build garden walls and terraces.
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The frame is filled in with triple glazing on the upper storey, with ashlar stone blocks on the first floor, and is left open on the ground floor to form a colonnade.
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The basalt ashlars have protruding bosses and roughly dressed margins, which give the impression of order and unity.
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These ashlars are ‘finely shaped parallelepipeds,’ some of which are nearly cubical.
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The team composed of Belgian topographers and Turkish architects is a kind of ambulant group, making plans and elevations as the excavations go on and recording each piece of ashlar or decorated building element before it is removed.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 2
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The construction is stone resembling brick in shape, giving a less stern appearance than ashlaring would have done in such a massive building.
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It is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings on a granite plinth.
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The gaps above the designated ashlars have been cleared of debris and new ashlars have been inserted.
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Much of the lower building work is to be reconstructed in stone ashlar with some units to include dormer, full-length windows and balconies.
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The most important was the third course of ashlars belonging to the south facade east of the door.
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On the borders of the ashlars, subject to widespread substitutions, the effects of compression are visible.
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Many of the piers on the south side, namely, the eight westerly ones, including the half pier, retain the Norman ashlaring, upon which the new moldings have been wrought.
