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Stone Masonry

Stone masonry is one of the oldest building crafts, originating over 10,000 years ago. Stone construction involves different techniques including paneling, ashlar works, and rubble works. Ashlar works use cut stone and include broken ashlar, random coursed ashlar, and regular coursed ashlar. Rubble works use roughly shaped stones and include random rubble and coursed rubble. Stone is also used for architectural features like quoins, jambs, sills, belts, copings, cornices, lintels, steps, arches, and flooring.

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Stone Masonry

Stone masonry is one of the oldest building crafts, originating over 10,000 years ago. Stone construction involves different techniques including paneling, ashlar works, and rubble works. Ashlar works use cut stone and include broken ashlar, random coursed ashlar, and regular coursed ashlar. Rubble works use roughly shaped stones and include random rubble and coursed rubble. Stone is also used for architectural features like quoins, jambs, sills, belts, copings, cornices, lintels, steps, arches, and flooring.

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STONE MASONRY

BROKEN ASHLAR

PANELING RANDOM COURSED ASHLAR


RANDOM RUBBLE STONE MASONRY COURSED RUBBLE

REGULAR COURSED ASHLAR


STONE MASONRY
STONE MASONRY
Masonry
● oldest building crafts in the world.

● the art and craft of building and fabricating in stone, clay ,

brick, or concrete block


History
● originated when early man sought to supplement his
valuable but rare natural caves with artificial caves made
from piles of stone way back 10,000 B.C.
STONE CONSTRUCTION
● Paneling -consisting of slabs of stone cut to dimension and

thickness to cover walls and provide a finished exterior.


● Ashlar -work requires the use of cut stones and includes
broken ashlar, random coursed ashlar, regular
coursed ashlar.
● Rubble -works used as random when no attempt is made

to produce either horizontal or vertical course lines.


STONE MASONRY
Ashlar Works
● Broken ashlar -stones that are rectangular random
with irregular in shape, laid but of different sizes.
● Random coursed ashlar -stones laid out in courses but

are not of uniform sizes.


● Regular coursed ashlar -stones laid out in courses and

are uniform in sizes.


Rubble Works
● Random Rubble -composed of roughly shaped stones

laid without regularity of coursing but well bonded


and fitted together to form well-divided joints.
● Course Rubble -made with broken stones of widely
different sizes and qualities that are laid in level
courses.
Trim Works -stones cut for specific purpose and includes Quoin

Quoin -stones naturally or artificially cut laid at the intersection of the 2 walls.
Course -a layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall.
STONE MASONRY
As Jambs -stones which form the sides of windows and door
openings
As Sills -stones which form the bottom of window and door
openings.
As Belts -special stone courses which are built into a wall for a
particular purpose. One reason is to provide architectural relief
to a large wall of one material or to provide a break in the
vertical plane of the wall, another reason is to hide a change
in the wall thickness.
STONE MASONRY
As Copings -stones which form the sides of windows and
door openings
As Cornices -specially cut stones which are built into and
project from, a masonry wall near the top to provide the
apperance of a cave.
As Lintels -stones which place and bridge the top of door or
window openings.
STONE MASONRY
As Steps -made to fit over an inclined concrete slab or to
caps steps cast in concrete.
As Arch -cut to form particular type of arch over a window or
opening.
As Flooring -walks and patios, made by covering a base stone
concrete, brick or tile with flagstone. They may be random
flagstone, trimmed flagstone, trimmed rectangular and square.

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