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...But as with 18th-century masonry, appearances in 21st-century online work can be deceptive....
...I almost didn’t make my interview with Pierre Bidaud, a mason-designer of spectacular stone staircases....
...Then he took a ferry across the Mersey to work for a mason in north Wales. The name of the company? Jones....
...The bottom line was that the castle needed 10,000 cubic metres of masonry. Yet, if it sat on good bedrock, that stone and its haulage would cost nothing....
...Ghosts of the recent dead, victims of the Blitz, crushed in the blasted masonry of houses and schools. Ghosts of the long-since deceased, preserved in dishonest paintings and unreliable memories....
...Homes can have masonry or mortar walls strengthened with wood or bamboo instead of steel....
...There were other makers but Lambeth’s artificial masonry industry became synonymous with Eleanor Coade....
...As solid, sculpted masonry buildings have since become mere cladding of cavity walls, medieval artisans’ work has to be preserved for as long as time will allow....
...There are conspiracy theories that link Jesuits to the Masons and to the Jews....
...The famous definition of an architect as a mason that knows Latin suits him perfectly.” The plainness mixed with the grandeur is part of what appeals today....
...have included Winston Churchill, George Washington and Geraldo; (iii) there are different kinds of masonry around the world, which don’t necessarily recognise each other; (iv) freemasons give large sums...
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