Martin and Oliver Webb Fine Stone Miniatures. Museum quality handmade miniatures of stone carvings for the collector and connoisseur.
Catalogue No.42.

A Stonemason's Dictionary
A pocket dictionary of masonry terms, names and expressions

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Jamb: Upright side to the opening of a door or window.

Joggle: Matching indentations cut in the meeting faces of two stones to produce a key between them and eliminate movement.

Joinery: The smaller items of woodwork. Door, windows etc

Joist: A beam supporting a floor

Journeyman: Itinerant stonemason.

Jumper: Steel tool for drilling holes in stone through a pulverising action.

Catalogue No.84.

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