A straight passage, A B, flanked by walls of ashlarmasonry and open to the sky, leads to a doorway, B.
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.
There is another piece of Roman work in the neighbourhood of Newport Gate, which is a piece of wall built with ashlar and binding courses of tile.
The masonry is of plain character, all the part below the ashlar coping being of ordinary fitted rubble of great thickness, solidly built with hydraulic lime mortar.
The inner plates of the annulus were cut out, and the work in the centre which consisted of granite ashlar set in cement was thoroughly bonded into the ring of masonry already built.
The rock in the annulus was dressed, and the space filled by a ring of granite ashlar masonry which was built to a height of about 7 feet all round.
It may be that it does, but the actual masonry, it will be noticed, the ashlar work, capitals and arches, are superior to that of the Castle and S.
An "ashlar piece" in building is an upright piece of timber framed between the common rafters and the wall plate.
In ordinary building houses of ashlar seem to be novel enough to be mentioned.
So in another oracle of the same section: Houses of ashlar ye have built, and ye shall not inhabit them; vineyards of delight have ye planted, and ye shall not drink of their wine.
Cottingham removed them and built up the wall, which deviated twenty-two inches from the upright, with a face of ashlar which constituted an invisible buttress.
He gave it a new ashlar facing, which, as the wall was considerably out of the perpendicular, constituted an invisible buttress.
The lower part still remaining is so dilapidated, with all its ashlar facing gone, that it seems impossible to fix the position of the original entrance.
But in the innermost nook of this mighty remnant, and using for its lowly walls two sides of the ancient ashlar ones, stood a cot builded not over trimly of small wood, and now much overgrown with roses and woodbine.
All the churches are built in fine ashlar masonry, with moulded archivolts and architraves to doorways and windows, and moulded string courses and cornices of simple design.
In its design it belongs to the true Spanish type of the Renaissance, with the simple ashlar masonry of its walls and the accentuation of the principal entrance doorway and the windows.
The fine ashlar work of el-Hadr is no longer adhered to, and in its place we find rubble masonry with thick mortar joints, the walls being covered afterwards, both externally and internally, with stucco.
In England a stone much used for backingashlar and Kentish rag rubble-work is a soft sandstone called "hassock.
Block-in-course is the name applied to a form of stone walling that has some of the characteristics of ashlar but the execution of which is much rougher.
The face joints of ashlar stonework are often sunk or rebated to form what are termed rusticated joints; sometimes the angles of each block are moulded or chamfered to give relief to the surface or to show a massive effect (fig.
Ashlar walls are constructed of carefully worked blocks of regular dimensions and set with fine joints.
The various beds of which the cliffs are composed, as courses of ashlar compose a wall, are of very different degrees of solidity: some are of hard porphyritic or basaltic trap; some of soft Oölitic sandstone or shale.
The ashlar work is different, and the courses are not continuous (p.
The lower story is entirely of rubble, while the upper story is partly of goodashlar work.
At one of the roughly rounded angles the ashlar facing remained intact.
The viaduct is composed of seven semicircular arches, each end arch being built of ashlar masonry, and of 6 meters (19 ft.
The four central piers are of iron erected on pillars of ashlar masonry.
The Movable Jewels are the Rough Ashlar, the Perfect Ashlar and the Trestle-Board.
The Rough Ashlar is a stone, as taken from the quarry, in its rude and natural state.
Ashlar work, of carefully hewn oblong blocks laid in courses, is found in the older portions of the city wall (Fig.
The rubble work is mostly of lava; but gray tufa was used exclusively, not only for ashlar work in facades, but also for columns and entablatures.
On the side facing the street these houses have walls of ashlar work of Sarno limestone (Fig.
With the coming of the Roman colony ashlar work went out of use, even for the corners of houses and doorposts.
The walls of the temple both within and without were done over in stucco, so as to resemble ashlar work of white marble; apparently it was the intention to give the appearance of real marble.
In general the walls are faced on each side with a thin shell ofashlar or cut stone, whilst the intervening space, which is sometimes considerable, is filled with grouted rubble.
The ashlar masonry forming the angles is not, however, invariably thus disposed.
Where do we meet with instances where long and short blocks of ashlar masonry are disposed in alternate courses at the angles of walls?
The masonry was chiefly composed of rubble, with ashlar or squared blocks of stone at the angles, disposed in courses in a peculiar manner.
The so-called tomb of Leonidas, a square chamber built with huge blocks of ashlar masonry, of which three courses remain, appears like building of the best period, but its history is wholly unknown.
Lord Dunraven considered it to be the most interesting monument at Clonmacnoise, and Petrie describes it as wholly built of ashlar masonry with a fine sandstone laid in horizontal courses.
The portion of the tower built by O'Rorke's men in the tenth century is of fine-jointed ashlar masonry; but the upper portion, executed two centuries later in A.
At Norwich only a very small piece of the original ashlar is left.
The use of rubble instead of ashlar is common at all dates, and depends no doubt on local conditions, the local provision of stone, or the affluence or poverty of the castle-builder.
The masonry of the Tower is of Kentish rag, with ashlar quoins.
Even this is a test which may sometimes deceive; certain kinds of ashlar are very liable to weather at the edges, and when the wall has been pointed at a comparatively recent period, a false appearance of wide joints is produced.
We are probably justified in laying down as a general rule that the dimensions of the ashlar stones increase as the Middle Ages advance.
Peak in Derbyshire, the walls of which are almost perfect (except for their ashlar coats) there are no fireplaces at all, nor are there any in the 13th-century keep of Pembroke.
This had become dust, and tended to burst out the ashlar casing: this shell was indeed doing all the work of supporting the weight resting on the piers.
