ashlar Definition
ash·lar (as̸h′lər)
noun
- a square-cut building stone
- a thin, dressed, square stone used for facing masonry walls
- masonry made of either kind of ashlar
Etymology: ME assheler < OFr aisseler < aissele, shingle, dim. < ais, board < L assis, board, akin to asser, beam, plank
ashlar Usage Examples
Converse of object
- tool: Tooled ashlar, terminating in slightly molded pilasters, and topped by a cornice.
- rusticate: Rusticated granite ashlar and wrought iron Gothic style gates.
- dress: This early work is of square, dressed, freestone ashlars.
- face: The building is ashlar faced with a hipped roof.
Adjective modifier
- red: Pevsner describes the building as being of red ashlar within.
- polished: Duff House, the Fife Gates Pair of polished ashlar octagonal gatepiers with molded stepped caps supporting fine carved stone urns.
- rough: The walls are faced with rough ashlar and the roofs are covered with tiles and lead.
- yellow: The older sandstone remains weathered and discolored and recent repair work in fine grained yellow ashlar is clearly visible.
- modern: West wall: splayed window with modern ashlar in embrasure.
Modifies a noun
- quoin: North wall: Fabric A, with more modern masonry at higher level, and more uniform ashlar quoins also.
- dressing: Squared rubble in small blocks with ashlar dressings in more or less the same color.
- stonework: The ashlar stonework contrast sharply with the rendered side walls.
- masonry: A change to ashlar masonry at the extreme east end of the nave.
- sandstone: The façade to University Avenue is primarily of natural ashlar sandstone layered upon smooth white render.
- block: Stone flagged floor; walls lined with ashlar blocks, presumably of late medieval date.
Noun used with modifier
- sandstone: Fabrics: ' A ' is of sandstone ashlar, buff in color, medium to large in size, largely coursed.
- granite: Barthol Chapel war memorial A simple small stone tablet on a pediment of darker granite ashlar.
- stone: The church is solidly built of brick covered with stone ashlar some five inches thick overall.
- limestone: His design for Chippenham was in Dutch Renaissance style, constructed in limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs.
- freestone: This early work is of square, dressed, freestone ashlars.

