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Sentences with ashlar

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  • As will be seen shortly, this ramp was used to lower ashlars for transport under the perimeter of Cheops.
  • The tombs were made of ashlars with dry joints, or of bricks and mortar.
  • The basalt ashlars have protruding bosses and roughly dressed margins, which give the impression of order and unity.
  • The most important was the third course of ashlars belonging to the south facade east of the door.
  • The gaps above the designated ashlars have been cleared of debris and new ashlars have been inserted.
  • The ground or basement story of the Alabama capitol was constructed of traditional masonry consisting of ashlar walls made of locally quarried sandstone.
  • There was, on the one hand, the precise architecture, the cold ashlar blocks; on the other, the deep personal loss.
  • The building has an ashlar stone base with an arcade at ground level.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • It is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings on a granite plinth.
  • Other citizens hauled away truckloads of carved ashlar and flagstones to build garden walls and terraces.
  • Much of the lower building work is to be reconstructed in stone ashlar with some units to include dormer, full-length windows and balconies.
  • The two-bedroomed apartments, spread over four floors, benefit from a unique setting and feature a facade of ashlar stones with carved features.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • In the courtrooms, fabric-wrapped acoustical panels give the walls an ashlar pattern similar to that of the exterior.
  • In our work at the site some thirty or so years later we recorded significant damage resulting from bulldozing and found three ashlar blocks.
  • A handsome ivy-clad ashlar mansion, the house was built overlooking the Blackwater Valley in the 1770s.
  • There are numerous cracks in ashlar stones on the external elevation.
  • The defensive wall was of fine ashlar masonry with a pronounced batter.
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