Bondstone

Description

A block of stone used as an anchor to attach masonry veneer to a backing wall. The bondstone is constructed as part of the backing wall, but it projects out from the wall because of its greater thickness, and thus provides a location for connecting the facing material.

Synonyms and Related Terms

bond stone; bond-stone; bonder; binding stone

Authority

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• Anne Grimmer, Glossary of Building Stone Terms, A Glossary of Historic Masonry Deterioration Problems and Preservation Treatments, National Park Service, Washington DC, 1984

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000