Ashlar is finely dressed, precisely squared stone masonry laid in even, closely fitted courses with thin mortar joints, contrasted with rougher rubble masonry that uses irregular, minimally worked stones. The technique requires skilled cutting to achieve flush, tight joints and has been used since antiquity in monumental construction, from Egyptian and Greek temples to medieval European cathedrals and Renaissance palazzo facades, where its regularity conveyed permanence and status. Ashlar can be worked from limestone, sandstone, granite or marble, and its precision made it especially suited to load-bearing walls and to the visible facing of a rubble-cored wall.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Ashlar, introductory paragraph, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashlar
is cut and dressed stone worked to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular; a structure built from such stones; and the look created by the dressing technique.
Wikipedia: Ashlar, Description section, on Inca ashlar at Machu Picchu
The dry ashlar of Inca architecture in Cusco and Machu Picchu is particularly fine and famous.
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This they achieved by encasing the Norman stone in new ashlar, recutting the piers with Gothic mouldings and pointed arches
Arc de Triomphe (Wikipedia)
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vast ashlar masonry masses
Archiepiscopal Palace of Alcala de Henares (Wikipedia)
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It is divided into two bodies, being the low of ashlar
Hood-Anderson Farm (Wikipedia)
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well constructed of ashlar masonry
Calderstones House (Wikipedia)
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It is a 'restrained neo-classical' ashlar mansion of three floors
St Paul's Cathedral (Wikipedia)
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The building is of two storeys of ashlar masonry, above a basement, and surrounded by a balustrade above the upper cornice.
Marshcourt (Wikipedia)
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The house was built on the hillside, out of locally quarried chalk cut as ashlar, known as clunch.
Wolvesey Palace (Wikipedia)
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The palace is faced with ashlar, reused from a previously building.
All Saints' Church, Billockby (Wikipedia)
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It is of flint with ashlar dressings, and has a thatched roof; the interior includes an octagonal 15th-century font.
Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire (Wikipedia)
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The Jacobean north front of the house is constructed of ashlar and has a projecting porch with a bow window above.
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