STONE DECAY AND SMOKE ABATEMENT
EVERY expert in masonry is alive to the evil of facebedding. In some qualities of stone the results are much more serious than in others, and Caen stone is by no means the worst of them. Unfortunately it is not the case that the mediaevai builders were careful to avoid face-bedding. Technically skil...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | British architect, 1874-1919 1874-1919, 1907-02, p.76-76 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | EVERY expert in masonry is alive to the evil of facebedding. In some qualities of stone the results are much more serious than in others, and Caen stone is by no means the worst of them. Unfortunately it is not the case that the mediaevai builders were careful to avoid face-bedding. Technically skilful as their masons were in the manipulation of stone, they were singularly careless, or often, I believe, ignorant, in this important particular. |
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| ISSN: | 2043-1562 |