Stonemasonry

thumb|A mason laying a brick on top of the mortar thumb|Bridge over the Isábena (river)|Isábena river in the Monastery of Santa María de Obarra, masonry construction with stones

mortarless masonry method

thumb|250px|A ceremonial cornerstone from 1907, at the side of a building in Lasówka, Poland A cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation. All other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.

thumb|right| Gobekli Tepe, early monumental Neolithic stonemasonry using flint-carved limestone columns (~9500 BCE) thumb|right|12th-century stonemasonry at Angkor Wat thumb|right|Wire saw|Diamond-wire saw in use for quarrying marble thumb|right|Stonemason working with medieval tools thumb|right|Stonemasonry with andesite, [[Borobudur, Indonesia]]

masonry technique of texturing

art of shaping stone materials

thumb|Dry stone|Dry ashlar masonry laid in parallel courses on an Inca wall at [[Machu Picchu]] thumb|Ashlar masonry north gable of Banbury Town Hall, Oxfordshire thumb|quarry-faced stone|Quarry-faced red Longmeadow sandstone in random ashlar was specified by architect [[Henry Hobson Richardson for the North Congregational Church (Springfield, Massachusetts, 1871).]]

a set of stones used as a crossing point

symbol often found on dressed stone in buildings

wall building technique with ashlar blocks of equal height

masonry structural division

pavement used for pedestrian areas

thumb|right|Quoining on the corners of Palazzo Aragona Gonzaga, Rome thumb|Alternate horizontal quoining on a wall in East Ayrshire thumb|right|Porch quoins, Palazzo Giusti, Verona Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th-century encyclopedia, these imply strength, permanence, and expense, all reinforcing the onlooker's sense of a structure's presence.

thumb|(L) Anathyrosis on a restored stone (below) and an ancient stone (above) in the Erechtheion in [[Athens, Greece]] Anathyrosis is the technical word for the ancient method of dressing the joints of stone blocks in dry stone construction, i. e., masonry without mortar, which was then commonly used. Because the stone blocks are set in immediate contact with each other without gaps, their joints must be exactly dressed. In order to reduce the time required to sculpt such joints, the faces of the stones to be joined were finished and smoothed only in narrower margins on the sides and top of t

rough, unhewn stone set in mortar, but not laid in regular courses

sculpture made from stone

pedestrian bridge composed of short segments, each set at an angle relative to its neighbors

thin sheets of stone applied as a decorative surface

secret language, argot, employed by stonecutters in Galicia, Spain, particularly in the area of Pontevedra, based on the Galician language

ancient stone sculpting practice

architectural element, usually on a building