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Brickwork
Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and
mortar. Typically, rows of bricks — called courses[1][2] — are laid on
top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall.
Brick is a popular medium for constructing buildings, and examples of
brickwork are found right back through history as far as the Bronze
Age. The fired-brick faces of the ziggurat of ancient Dur-Kurigalzu in
Iraq date from around 1400 BC, and the brick buildings of ancient
Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan were built around 2600 BC. Much older
examples of brickwork made with dried (but not fired) bricks may be
found in such ancient locations as Jericho in the West Bank, Çatal
Hüyük in Anatolia, and Mehrgarh in Pakistan. These structures have
survived from the Stone Age to the present day.

Decorative Tudor brick chimneys, Hampton

Court Palace, UK

Twelfth-century temple brickwork, Ayutthaya,

Thailand

Parts of brickwork include bricks, beds

and perpends. The bed is the mortar
upon which a brick is laid.[3] A
perpend is a vertical joint between any
two bricks and is usually — but not
always — filled with mortar.[4] The
dimensions of these parts are, in
general, co-ordinated so that two
bricks laid side by side separated only
by the width of a perpend have a total The co-ordinating principle
width identical to the length of a single
brick laid transversely on top of them.

An example of a co-ordinating metric commonly used for bricks in the UK is as follows:[5][6][7]

• Bricks of dimensions 215 mm x 102.5 mm × 65 mm;
• Mortar beds and perpends of a uniform 10 mm.
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In this case the co-ordinating metric works because the total width of two bricks (102.5 mm + 102.5 mm = 205 mm)
plus a perpend of mortar (10 mm) is equal to the length of a single brick (215 mm).
There are many other brick sizes worldwide, and many of them use this same co-ordinating principle.

Orientation
A brick is given a classification based
on how it is laid, and how the exposed
face is oriented relative to the face of
the finished wall.
Stretcher
A brick laid with its long narrow
side exposed.[8]
Header
A brick laid flat with its width at
the face of the wall, or parallel to
the face of the wall. Six positions
Soldier

A brick laid vertically with the long narrow side of the brick exposed.[9]
Sailor
A brick laid vertically with the broad face of the brick exposed.[10]
Rowlock
A brick laid on the long narrow side with the short end of the brick exposed.[11]
Shiner
A brick laid on the long narrow side with the broad face of the brick exposed.[12]

Cut
The practice of laying uncut full-sized bricks wherever possible gives brickwork its maximum possible strength. In
the diagrams below, uncut full-sized bricks are coloured as follows:
  Stretchers: A brick laid with its long, narrow side exposed.
  Header: A brick laid with its short side exposed.
Occasionally though a brick must be cut to fit a given space, or to be the right shape for fulfilling some particular
purpose such as generating an offset, or lap at the beginning of a course.[13] In the diagrams below, the most
commonly used cuts for generating offsets are coloured as follows:
  Three-quarter bat - stretching: A brick cut to three-quarters of its length, and laid with its long, narrow side
exposed.
  Three-quarter bat - heading: A brick cut to three-quarters of its length, and laid with its short side exposed.
  Half bat: A brick cut in half across its width.
  Queen closer: A brick cut in half down its width.[14]
Less frequently used cuts are all coloured as follows:
  Quarter bat: A brick cut to a quarter of its length.
  Three-quarter queen closer: A queen closer cut to three-quarters of its length.
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  King closer: A brick with one corner cut away, leaving one header face at half its standard width.[15]

Bonding
A nearly universal rule allowing for brickwork to be stable under even modest loads is that perpends should not
vertically align in any two successive courses. If this rule is observed, then the force acting on any brick is
distributed across a wider area in the next successive course.[16]
A second practice particularly observed in older examples of brickwork is that of building brickwork thicker than the
width of any of its individual bricks. In these cases, a number of the component bricks are tied together into the
depth of the wall. If — for example — a wall describing an east-west line is under construction, then bricks oriented
to point north-south may be built into the width of the wall, their length spanning two widths of brick and tying the
brickwork on the transverse plane. Historically, this was the dominant method for consolidating the transverse
strength of walls.
Brickwork observing either or both of these two conventions is described as being laid in one or another bond.[17][18]

Wall ties
The advent during the mid twentieth century of the cavity wall saw the development of another method of
strengthening brickwork — the wall tie. A cavity wall comprises two totally discrete walls — each one of which is
called a wythe or leaf.[19][20] A cavity separates the two leaves so that there is no masonry connection between them
at all.[21] Typically the main loads taken by the foundations are carried there by the inner leaf, and the major
functions of the external leaf are to protect the whole from weather, and to provide a fitting aesthetic finish.
Although the two leaves may not share the structural load, their transverse rigidity still needs to be guaranteed, and
must come from some source other than interlocking bricks. The device used to satisfy this need is the insertion at
regular intervals of wall ties into the cavity wall's mortar beds.[22][23]

Thickness
Brickwork is said to be one brick thick if it has a total width equal to the length of one of its regular component
bricks. Accordingly, a wall of a single leaf is a wall of one half brick thickness; a wall with the simplest possible
masonry transverse bond is said to be one brick thick, and so on.[24] The thickness specified for a wall is determined
by such factors as damp proofing considerations, whether or not the wall has a cavity, load-bearing requirements,
and expense.[25][26] Wall thickness specification has proven considerably various, and while some non-load-bearing
brick walls may be as little as half a brick thick, others brick walls will be much thicker. The Monadnock Building in
Chicago — for example — is a very tall masonry building, and has load-bearing brick walls nearly two metres thick
at the base.[27] The majority of brick walls are however usually between one and three bricks thick. At these more
modest wall thicknesses, distinct patterns have emerged allowing for a structurally sound layout of bricks internal to
each particular specified thickness of wall.

Load-bearing bonds

Courses of mixed headers and stretchers

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Flemish bond Monk bond Sussex bond

Flemish bond
This bond has one stretcher between headers, with the headers centred over the stretchers in the course below.[28]
Where a course begins with a quoin stretcher, the course will ordinarily terminate with a quoin stretcher at the other
end. The next course up will begin with a quoin header. For the course's second brick, a queen closer is laid,
generating the lap of the bond. The third brick along is a stretcher, and is — on account of the lap — centred above
the header below. This second course then resumes its paired run of stretcher and header, until the final pair is
reached, whereupon a second and final queen closer is inserted as the penultimate brick, mirroring the arrangement
at the beginning of the course, and duly closing the bond.
Some examples of Flemish bond incorporate stretchers of one colour and headers of another. This effect is
commonly a product of treating the header face of the heading bricks while the bricks are being baked as part of the
manufacturing process. Some of the header faces are exposed to wood smoke, generating a grey-blue colour, while
other simply vitrified until they reach a deeper blue colour. Some headers have a glazed face, caused by using salt in
the firing. Sometimes Staffordshire Blue bricks are used for the heading bricks.[29][30]
Brickwork that appears as Flemish bond from both the front and the rear is Double Flemish bond, so called on
account of the front and rear duplication of the pattern. If the wall is arranged such that the bricks at the rear do not
have this pattern, then the brickwork is said to be Single Flemish bond.[31]

Double Flemish bond of one brick’s thickness

By simply placing stretchers immediately to the rear of the face stretchers, Flemish bonded brickwork with a
thickness of one brick is built.

Double Flemish bond of one and a half bricks’ thickness

Alternately, facing bricks and the bricks behind the facing bricks may be laid in groups of four bricks and a half-bat.
The half-bat sits at the centre of the group and the four bricks are placed about the half-bat, in a square formation.
These groups are laid next to each other for the length of a course, making brickwork one and a half bricks
thick.[32][33]
To preserve the bond, it is necessary to lay a three-quarter bat instead of a header following a quoin stretcher at the
corner of the wall. This fact has no bearing on the appearance of the wall; the choice of brick appears to the spectator
like any ordinary header.

Double Flemish bond of two bricks’ thickness

For a more substantial wall, a header may be laid directly behind the face header, a further two headers laid at 90°
behind the face stretcher, and then finally a stretcher laid to the rear of these two headers. This pattern generates
brickwork a full two bricks thick.

Double Flemish bond of three bricks’ thickness

For a still more substantial wall, two headers may be laid directly behind the face header, a further two pairs of
headers laid at 90° behind the face stretcher, and then finally a stretcher laid to the rear of these four headers. This
pattern generates brickwork a full three bricks thick.
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Monk bond
This bond has two stretchers between every header with the headers centred over the perpend between the two
stretchers in the course below in the bond's most symmetric form.[34]
In this symmetric form the lap of the bond may be variously generated. The brickwork in Monk bond at Guildford
Cathedral sandwiches a queen closer between two heading bricks at the quoins. At this point the regular run of two
stretchers and one header follows on along the course. In other structures the queen closer is omitted, and the
grouping is instead of a quoin header, and a three-quarter bat as the second brick along.

Raking Monk bonds

Monk bond variations

New Malden Library, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London.

Former Post Office, Arvika, Sweden.

Private building, Solna, Sweden.

Pyramids highlighted.
Monk bond may however take any of a number of arrangements for course staggering. The disposal of bricks in
these often highly irregular raking patterns can be a challenging task for the bricklayer to correctly maintain while
constructing a wall whose courses are partially obscured by scaffold, and interrupted by door or window openings, or
other bond-disrupting obstacles. If the bricklayer frequently stops to check that bricks are correctly arranged, then
masonry in a raking Monk bond can be expensive to build.[35]
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Occasionally, brickwork in such a raking Monk bond may contain minor errors of header and stretcher alignment
some of which may have been silently corrected by incorporating a compensating irregularity into the brickwork in a
course further up the wall. In spite of these complexities and their associated costs, the bond has proven a common
choice for constructing brickwork in the north of Europe.
Raking courses in Monk bond may — for instance — be staggered in such a way as to generate the appearance of
diagonal lines of stretchers. One method of achieving this effect relies on the use of a repeating sequence of courses
with back-and-forth header staggering. In this grouping, a header appears at a given point in the group's first course.
In the next course up, a header is offset one and a half stretcher lengths to the left of the header in the course below,
and then in the third course, a header is offset one stretcher length to the right of the header in the middle course.
This accented swing of headers, one and a half to the left, and one to the right, generates the appearance of lines of
stretchers running from the upper left hand side of the wall down to the lower right. Such an example of a raking
Monk bond layout is shown in the New Malden Library, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London.
Elsewhere, raking courses in Monk bond may be staggered in such a way as to generate a subtle appearance of
indented pyramid-like diagonals. Such an arrangement may set a header at a given point in a first course. A header in
the second course is staggered in the horizontal plane by a length of three-quarters of a stretcher to the right. With
each ascending course, the interval of the stagger of headers increases by a length of half a stretcher until the stagger
is equal to a length of one and three-quarters of a stretcher. This progression is then reversed so that the stagger then
decreases with ascending courses by a half stretcher until it is back down to the length of three-quarters of a stretcher
of stagger. This arrangement is repeated as the wall ascends. Every two courses gained in height the indented
pyramids flip around in the horizontal plane so as to form pyramids that are mirror images of those below. Such a
bond appears in the picture here from the building in Solna, Sweden.
Many other particular adjustments of course alignment exist in Monk bond, generating a variety of visual effects
which differ in detail, but often having the effect of directing a viewing eye diagonally down the wall.[36]
The great variety of Monk bond patterns allow for many possible layouts at the quoins, and this particular is
variously planned and executed. A quoin brick may be a stretcher, a three-quarter bat, or a header. Queen closers
may be used next to the quoins, but the practice is not mandatory.

Sussex bond
This bond has three stretchers between every header, with the headers centred above the midpoint of three stretchers
in the course below.[37]
The bond's horizontally extended proportion suits long stretches of masonry such as garden walls or the run of
brickwork over a ribbon window; conversely, the bond is less suitable for a surface occupied by many features, such
as a Georgian façade. The relatively infrequent use of headers serves to make Sussex bond one of the less expensive
bonds in which to build a wall, as it allows for the bricklayer to proceed rapidly with run after run of three stretchers
at a time.[38]
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One stretching course per heading course

English bond English Cross bond Double English Cross bond

One of the two kinds of course in this family of bonds is called a stretching course, and this typically comprises
nothing but stretchers at the face from quoin to quoin. The other kind of course is the heading course, and this
usually consists of headers, with two queen closers — one by the quoin header at either end — to generate the
bond.[39]

English bond
This bond has alternating stretching and heading courses, with the headers centred over the midpoint of the
stretchers, and perpends in each alternate course aligned. Queen closers appear as the second brick, and the
penultimate brick in heading courses.[40][41] A muted colour scheme for occasional headers is sometimes used in
English bond to lend a subtle texture to the brickwork. Examples of such schemes include blue-grey headers among
otherwise red bricks – seen in the south of England – and light brown headers in a dark brown wall, more often
found in parts of the north of England.[42]

English Cross bond

This bond also has alternating stretching and heading courses.

However, whilst the heading courses are identical with those found in
the standard English bond, the stretching courses alternate between a
course composed entirely of stretchers from quoin to quoin with no
off-set, and a course composed of stretchers half off-set relative to the
stretchers two courses above or below, by virtue of a header placed just
before the quoins at either end.[43] The bond is widely found in
Northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands.[44]

Dutch bond

This bond is exactly like English Cross bond except in the generating
of the lap at the quoins. In Dutch bond, all quoins are three-quarter
bats – placed in alternately stretching and heading orientation with
successive courses – and no use whatever is made of queen closers.[45]

Dutch Bond, Linacre College, Oxford.

Double English Cross bond

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This bond comprises two courses of headers (half off-set by alternately stretching and heading three-quarter bats at
the quoins) followed by two courses of stretchers (quarter off-set, also by alternately stretching and heading
three-quarter bats at the quoins). By off-setting the stretchers from each other by one-quarter and centring the lower
course of stretchers above the upper course of headers they sit upon, perpends in the upper courses of stretchers are
aligned with perpends in the upper courses of headers, whereas perpends in the lower courses of stretchers are
aligned with perpends in the lower courses of headers.

Two or more stretching course per heading course

A raking English Garden Wall bond Scottish bond American bond

English Garden Wall bond

This bond has three courses of stretchers between every course of headers.[46]
Headers are used as quoins for the middle stretching course in order to achieve the necessary off-set in the standard
English Garden Wall bond, with queen closers as the penultimate brick at either end of the heading courses. A more
complex set of quoins and penultimate bricks is necessary to achieve a raking English Garden Wall bond however.
The heading course in English Garden Wall bond sometimes features bricks of a different colour to its surrounding
stretchers. In English chalk districts, flint is substituted for the stretchers, and the headers constitute a lacing course.

Scottish bond
This bond has five courses of stretchers between every course of headers.
Headers are used as quoins for the even numbered stretching courses, counting up from the previous heading course,
in order to achieve the necessary off-set in the standard Scottish bond, with queen closers as the penultimate brick at
either end of the heading courses

American, or common bond

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This bond has anywhere from three to nine courses of stretchers

between every course of headers.
Headers are used as quoins for the even numbered stretching courses,
counting up from the previous heading course, in order to achieve the
necessary off-set in a standard American bond, with queen closers as
the penultimate brick at either end of the heading courses.
The brick Clarke-Palmore House in Henrico County, Virginia, has a
lower level built in 1819 described as being American bond of three to
American bond, 5th Ave, Harlem, New York
five stretching courses between each heading course, and an upper
level built in 1855 with American bond of six to seven stretching
courses between each heading course.[47]

Only stretching or heading courses

Header bond Stretcher bond A raking Stretcher bond

Header bond
Consists entirely of courses of headers, with the bricks in each successive course staggered by half a header.
Alternately stretching and heading three-quarter bats serve for quoins, generating the necessary offset.
Header bond is often used on curving walls with a small radius of curvature. In Lewes, Sussex many small buildings
are constructed in this bond, using blue coloured bricks and vitrified surfaces.[48][49]

Stretcher, or running bond

Consists entirely of courses of stretchers, with the bricks in each successive course staggered by half a stretcher.
Headers are used as quoins on alternating stretching courses in order to achieve the necessary off-set.
It is the simplest repeating pattern, and will create a wall only one-half brick thick. Such a thin wall is not stable
enough to stand alone, and must be tied to a supporting structure. This practice is common in modern buildings,
where stretcher bonded brickwork may be the outer face of a cavity wall, or the facing to a timber or steel-framed
structure.
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Raking Stretcher bond

Also consists entirely of courses of stretchers, but with the bricks in each successive course staggered in some
pattern other than that of standard stretcher bond.

One or more stretching courses per alternating course

Flemish Stretcher bond

Flemish Stretcher bond

Flemish Stretcher bond separates courses of alternately laid stretchers and headers, with a number of courses of
stretchers alone. Brickwork in this bond may have between one and four courses of stretchers to one course after the
Flemish manner.[50] The courses of stretchers are often but not always staggered in a raking pattern.
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Courses of mixed rowlocks and shiners

Rat-trap bond

Rat-trap bond

Rat-trap bond substantially observes the same pattern as Flemish bond,

but consists of rowlocks and shiners instead of headers and stretchers.
This gives a wall with an internal cavity bridged by the rowlocks,
hence the reference to rat-traps.[51]

One shiner course per heading course

Dearne's Bond

Dearne's bond substantially observes the same pattern as English bond,

but uses shiners in place of stretchers.[52]

Non-load-bearing bonds

Brick wall laid in rat-trap bond photographed

near Angelsea Road, Wivenhoe, Essex, England.
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Courses of mixed shiners and sailors

Single Basket Weave bond Double Basket Weave bond 90° Herringbone bond 45° Herringbone bond

Single Basket Weave bond

A row of Single Basket Weave bond comprises pairs of sailors laid

side-by-side, capped with a shiner, alternating with pairs of sailors laid
side-by-side sat atop a shiner. Subsequent rows are identical and
aligned with those above.

Double Basket Weave bond

A row of Double Basket Weave bond comprises pairs of shiners laid

atop one another, alternating with pairs of sailors laid side-by-side. The
following row is off-set so the pair of shiners sits below the pair of
45° Herringbone bond, Canterbury, UK
sailors in the row above. This results in bricks arranged in pairs in a
square grid so that the join between each pair is perpendicular to the
join of the four pairs around it.

Herringbone bond
The Herringbone pattern is made by placing a sailor to one side of a shiner making an 'L' shape, then repeatedly
nesting further such combinations. The whole tessellation can be rotated by 45°. Herringbone is sometimes used as
noggins in timber framed buildings.

Brickwork built around square fractional-sized bricks

Pinwheel bond Della Robbia bond

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Pinwheel bond
Pinwheel bond is made of four bricks surrounding a square half-brick, repeated in a square grid.

Della Robbia bond

A pattern made of four bricks surrounding a square brick, one-quarter the size of a half-brick. It is designed to
resemble woven cloth.
The picture of Della Robbia bond is in fact called interlacing bond

Diapering

Flemish Diagonal Bond, St John's College,

Trinity Street, Cambridge

Flemish Diagonal bond

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Brickwork formed into a diamond pattern is called diapering.

Flemish Diagonal bond

Flemish diagonal bond comprises a complex pattern of stretcher courses alternating with courses of one or two
stretchers between headers, at various offsets such that over ten courses a diamond-shaped pattern appears.

Damp-proof courses
Moisture may ascend into a building from the foundation of a wall or gain ingress into a building from a wet patch of
ground, where it meets a solid wall. The manifest result of this process is called damp. One of many methods of
resisting such ingresses of water is to construct the wall with several low courses of dense engineering bricks such as
Staffordshire blue bricks. This method of damp proofing appears as a distinctive navy blue band running around the
circumference of a building. The efficacy of this means of keeping out damp is more limited by the permeability of
the mortar bedding and perpends joining the bricks, than by that of the bricks themselves.[53]

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Construction Industry Training Board, Bircham Newton, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6RH. 1994. isbn 185751095X. Page 35-37. "Wall
thickness terms relate to a stretcher dimension of a brick. Wall (A) [pictured] is termed a half brick wall. Wall (B) [pictured] is termed a one
brick wall [...]. This wall is a half brick thick wall [...]. This wall is a one brick thick wall [...]."
[25] Bricks and Brickwork. Cecil C. Handisyde and Barry A. Haseltine. The Brick Development Association. 19 Grafton Street, London,
W1X 3LE. 1974. Page 68. "Old buildings of solid wall construction were accepted as 'waterproof', often when brickwork was only 9 inches
thick. Now it is generally agreed that solid walls of less than [one and a half] brick thickness are inadequate. Code of Practice 121 still
includes unrendered one brick thick walls as acceptable for sheltered positions but this seems a questionable recommendation. Walling of [one
and a half] brick thickness should be satisfactory for sheltered positions and may be adequate for moderate exposure."
[26] Barry's Introduction to Construction of Buildings. Second Edition. 2010. Stephen Emmitt and Christopher A. Gorse. Wiley-Blackwell, John
Wiley & Sons Ltd., The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ. isbn 9781405188548. Page 206. "In exposed positions
such as high ground and near the coast, a wall 2B thick may be needed to resist penetration to inside faces [...]. In positions of very severe
exposure to wind-driven rain, as on high open ground facing the prevailing wind and on the coast facing open sea, it is necessary to protect
both solid and cavity walls with an external cladding."
[27] Fuller, Chicago Tribune, December 7, 1958.
[28] A. C. Smeaton. The Builder's Pocket Manual; Containing the Elements of Building, Surveying and Architecture; with Practical Rules and
Instructions in Carpentry, Bricklaying, Masonry &c. Published by M. Taylor, Barnard's Inn, Holborn. 1837. Page 29, 30. "The two principal
methods of bricklaying are severally called English and Flemish bond. [...] Flemish bond consists in placing a header and a stretcher
alternately throughout every course."
[29] R.W. Brunskill. Brick Building in Britain. Victor Gollancz (Publisher) in association with Peter Crawley. An imprint of the Cassell Group.
Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R 0BB. 1997. isbn 0575065354. Page 57, 58.
[30] The Architectural Review. May 1936. The Architectural Press. 9 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W.1. London. Page 233.
[31] R.W. Brunskill. Brick Building in Britain. Victor Gollancz (Publisher) in association with Peter Crawley. An imprint of the Cassell Group.
Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R 0BB. 1997. isbn 0575065354. Page 91. "SINGLE FLEMISH BOND: gives the appearance of
Flemish Bond on the outside face only of a wall more than 9 inches thick. The same appearance on both inner and outer faces is given by
DOUBLE FLEMISH BOND."
[32] Peter Nicholson, Practical Masonry Bricklaying and Plastering. Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row, London. 1841. Page 102.
"[...] the bricks are disposed alike on both sides of the wall, the tail of the headers being placed contiguous to each other, so as to form square
spaces in the core of the wall for half-bricks."
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[33] Charles F.Mitchell. Building Construction. Part 1. First Stage or Elementary Course. Second Edition—Revised. Published by B.T. Batsford,
52 High Holborn. 1889. Page 25, figures 37 & 38.
[34] The Dictionary of Art. Grove. Volume Four, Biardeau TO Brüggemann. Edited by Jane Turner. Macmillan Publishers Limited. 1996. isbn
1884446000. Page 769.
[35] The Architectural Review. May 1936. The Architectural Press. 9 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W.1. London. Page 242. THE
BONDING OF BRICKWORK. P.M. Stratton. "An extra cost over Flemish has to be met for labour on Monk bond and its derivatives, because
the process is not so straightforward as Flemish, and the bricklayers have to stop and think more frequently."
[36] The Architectural Review. May 1936. The Architectural Press. 9 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W.1. London. Page 241. THE
BONDING OF BRICKWORK. P.M. Stratton. "Monk bond [...] is popular in the North of Europe. Two stretchers are followed by one header
in every course, the headers being so disposed that verticality of their axial lines is little apparent, and a striking result is obtained of diagonal
lines of stretchers, which look like a series of corbels or cantilevers embedded in the wall."
[37] A History of English Brickwork. Nathaniel Lloyd. First Published in 1925. Published by The Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, 2003. isbn
0907462367. Page 440. "FLEMISH GARDEN WALL or SUSSEX BOND. Three stretchers, then one header in every course."
[38] The Architectural Review. May 1936. The Architectural Press. 9 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W.1. London. Page 241. THE
BONDING OF BRICKWORK. P.M. Stratton.
[39] Charles F.Mitchell. Building Construction. Part 1. First Stage or Elementary Course. Second Edition—Revised. Published by B.T. Batsford,
52 High Holborn. 1889. Page 23.
[40] A. C. Smeaton. The Builder's Pocket Manual; Containing the Elements of Building, Surveying and Architecture; with Practical Rules and
Instructions in Carpentry, Bricklaying, Masonry &c. Published by M. Taylor, Barnard's Inn, Holborn. 1837. Page 29, 30. "The two principal
methods of bricklaying are severally called English and Flemish bond .... English bond consists of alternating courses of headers and
stretchers; thus, one course is formed with headers, that is, with bricks crossing the wall; the next with stretchers, that is, with bricks having
their length in the same direction as that of the wall[.]"
[41] Charles F.Mitchell. Building Construction. Part 1. First Stage or Elementary Course. Second Edition—Revised. Published by B.T. Batsford,
52 High Holborn. 1889. Page 21, figures 28 & 29.
[42] The Architectural Review. May 1936. The Architectural Press. 9 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W.1. London. Page 242. THE
BONDING OF BRICKWORK. P.M. Stratton.
[43] A History of English Brickwork. Nathaniel Lloyd. First Published in 1925. Published by The Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, 2003. isbn
0907462367. Page 440. "ENGLISH CROSS BOND. Stretchers breaking joint. The second brick of alternate stretching courses is a header."
[44] R.W. Brunskill. Brick Building in Britain. Victor Gollancz (Publisher) in association with Peter Crawley. An imprint of the Cassell Group.
Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R 0BB. 1997. isbn 0575065354. Page 50.
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52 High Holborn. 1889. Page 37.
[46] A History of English Brickwork. Nathaniel Lloyd. First Published in 1925. Published by The Antique Collectors' Club, 2003. isbn
0907462367. Page 440. "ENGLISH GARDEN WALL BOND. Three stretching courses to each heading course."
[47] and Accompanying four photos at Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, undated (http:/ / www. dhr. virginia. gov/ registers/ Counties/
Henrico/ Clarke-Palmore_photo. htm)
[48] A History of English Brickwork. Nathaniel Lloyd. First Published in 1925. Published by The Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, 2003. isbn
0907462367. Page 440. "HEADING BOND. All headers except a three-quarters brick at quoin in alternate courses."
[49] The Architectural Review. May 1936. The Architectural Press. 9 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W.1. London. Page 242, 245. THE
BONDING OF BRICKWORK. P.M. Stratton.
[50] R.W. Brunskill. Brick Building in Britain. Victor Gollancz (Publisher) in association with Peter Crawley. An imprint of the Cassell Group.
Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R 0BB. 1997. isbn 0575065354. Page 52.
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Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R 0BB. 1997. isbn 0575065354. Page 54.
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Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R 0BB. 1997. isbn 0575065354. Page 54, 87.
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Wiley & Sons Ltd., The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ. isbn 9781405188548. Page 154.
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