What is Stone Masonry?
Stonemasonry is the craft of turning rough stone blocks into accurate geometrical shapes, mostly simple, but some of considerable complexity, and then stacking the resulting stones, often together with mortar, to form buildings. Carvers cross the line from craft to art, and use their artistic ability to carve stone into foliage, figures, animals or abstract designs.Fixer masons specialise in the fixing of stones onto buildings, using lifting tackle, mortar, and sometimes metal fixings. The precise tolerances necessary make this a highly skilled job. Memorial masons carve gravestones and inscriptions.
