Masoncraft

The decay of masoncraft in the country generally is one of the things the lover of architecture most mourns, and this decay makes the preservation of the older work a matter of real national concern.

Thus the second category of practica, which included carpentry and masoncraft, mirrored the theoretical science of mathematics.

Monastic chronicles, building contracts and accounts and other contemporary documents have revealed a good deal of information about the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages.

Masoncraft, Freeman well shows, may, combined with writings, be a powerful factor in historic evidence; for the mind of a nation, at successive eras of its existence, is inscribed in its architecture.

These two places of the same name are singular in possessing large churches of a masoncraft which seems peculiar to the Carpass, as far as Cyprus is concerned, a masoncraft evidently imitated from the buildings of the Latin Crusaders established in Syria during the XIIth century.

For lightness and delicacy the masoncraft of Gloucester had no rivals at the time.

These refined masoncrafts are decorated with motifs or patterns that match the surrounding architectural molding of terraces, the bases of buildings, or the stone railings.

The Silverman house was stoutly built, with snug masoncraft and tight joinery, but somehow the sudden storm pressed a vague draft through the dining room.