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How to pronounce ashlar in English?

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Type of building block, stone

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The town hall was built in 1818 and has a two-storey late Georgian ashlar front.
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North of the seam is an early section of the wall built of large ashlar blocks.
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The south entrance arch is made from ashlar buff sandstone, and is Grade II listed.
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It was well known for its stone masonry that includes rustication and ashlar.
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It consists of huge ashlar blocks that have been in place for two millennia.
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The remaining parts of the cross consist of an octagonal shaft on three ashlar steps.
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It is an ambitious building, 180 feet long and ashlar faced with a tower at the west end.
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It is built in ashlar stone with a red tile roof and has a west tower with a broach spire.
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The mausoleum is built in ashlar buff and red sandstone with a Kerridge stone-slate roof.
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  • A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes
  • Ashlar is prepared (or "") stone work of any type of stone. Stone masonry utilizing dressed stones is known as ashlar masonry, whereas masonry using irregularly shaped stones is known as rubble masonry. ...
  • A large square stone; masonry making use of such stone blocks; A hurling stone used in warfare
  • Finely dressed natural stone: the best grade of masonry.
  • Masonry having a face of square or rectangular stones, either smooth or textured.
  • These are dressed rectangular or square blocks of masonry fixed by stonemasons in regular courses to create a wall face.
  • Smooth square stones laid in a horizontal fashion; used for foundations or facing of masonry walls. (IMAGE)
  • Squared blocks of smooth stone neatly trimmed to shape.
  • Arrows should all point in the same direction with the tile bond displaced by half a tile in the length direction.