Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment (1905)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Caxton Publishing Company, Limited · leaf 160
ourse, , Hammer-dressed (Quoins rock-jaced with drafted Margins. Fig. 212. labour is expended upon it ; while it resembles ashlar when it is more carefully wrought. 3. Ashlar is the term applied to the finest class of masonry, formed of blocks of stone usually over 12 inches deep, squared and… … of masonry known as Block-in-course (see Fig. 212) is Ashlar wftfi vermiculaled Quoins. employed. The stones are squared and brought to a fine joint, Fig. 213. while the faces are wrought to various degrees of fine- ness according to taste ; but hammer dressing is most upon the face of the stone,…
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