dressed stone
Cut building block
Dressed stone is stone that has been cut, shaped, and smoothed for use in construction, as opposed to rough or undressed stone used straight from the quarry.
The dressing process creates flat surfaces and precise edges, allowing stones to fit together neatly in walls and facades: The cathedral's dressed stone gleamed against the rougher fieldstone of nearby buildings.
- ashlarPrecision-cut building stone
- masonryBuilding with mortared blocks
- building blockBasic unit for construction
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- chiselEdged carving implement
limestone · marble · granite · hewn · rough hewn · block · facade · carved · smooth · squared · temple · ancient ruins · monument · cornerstone · mortar · mason · hammer · polished
- masonrymason, brick, bricks, mortar, cement
- building stoneashlar, bluestone, brownstone, cobblestone, cornerstone
- stone blockscobblestones, flagstone, granite, basalt, limestone
- Stone Buildingmasonry, fieldstone, castle
- stone pavingcobblestone, flagstone, setts, bluestone, travertine
- stonemasonryashlar, cornerstone, fieldstone, flagstone, keystone
dressed stonefieldstone
Uncut natural building stones
rubble · cobblestone · boulder · dry stone · natural stone
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