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ABC/276
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A History of English Brickwork
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- 1925 (Creation)
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1 volume
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A volume presenting the History of English Brickwork. It comprises Examples and Notes of the Architectural Use and Manipulation of Brick from Mediaeval Times to the End of the Georgian Period. The Chapters cover the Following Subjects: A History of English Brickwork; Antiquity; Medieval Brickwork; Influences Affecting Revival; Brick Sizes; Prices, Wages and Output; Brickmaking; Terra-Cotta; Statues, Proclamations and Orders; Tax on Bricks, 1784-1850; Characteristics of Brick; Factors: Forms, Texture, Colour; Association with other Materials; Manipulation of Brick; Bonds, Joints and Patterns; Diapers; Inlay, Tracery and Strapwork; Brick Moulding; Gauged Work; Carved Brick; Corbelling, Chimneys; Gateways, Garden Details, etc.; Porches, Doorways and Windows; Stairs, Vaultings, Arcading, Fonts, Fireplaces, Tablets, Pinnacles, etc.; Table of Brick Measurements. The text is accompanied by plenty of Photographic Illustrations and Measured Drawings, Elevations and Plans of the following Buildings: Colchester Castle; St. Botolph's Priory Church, Colchester; At. Albans Cathedral; Little Coggeshall Abbey, Essex; St. Nicholas Chapel, Little Coggeshall Abbey; Salmestone Grange, Margate; Little Wenham Hall, Suffolk; North Bar, Beverley; Tattershall Castle, Lincs; Caister Castle, near Yarmouth; Faulkbourne Hall, Essex; Herstmonceaux Castle, Sussex; Dent de Lion, Carlige, Thanet; Ewelme Almshouses, Oxon; Bishop of Ely's Palace, Hatfield, Herts; Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk; Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk; Gifford,s Hall; West Stow Hall, Suffolk; Hadleigh Towers, Suffolk; Great Snoring Rectory, Norfolk; Rye House, Herts; Lullingstone Castle, Kent; St. Andrew's Church, Sandon, Essex; Farnham Castle, Surrey; St. Nicholas Church, Tolleshunt Major, Essex; Layer Marney Church; St. Andrew's Church, Colne Engaine, Essex; Castle Hedingham Church, Essex; Bradfield Hall, Essex; The Old Vicarage, Methwold, Norfolk; Hampton Court Palace, Middlesex; Layer Marney Towers or Hall, Essex; Sutton Place, near Guildford; Hengrave Hall, Suffolk; East Barsham Manor House, Norfolk; Brunger's House, Tenterden, Kent; Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent; Little Leez, or Leighs Priory, Essex; Well House at Hales Place, Tenterden, Kent; Great Cressingham Priory, Norfolk; Beckingham Hall, Tolleshunt Major, Essex; Eastbury Manor House, Barking, Essex; Little Hautbois Hall, Norfolk; Moyns Park, Essex; Cobham Hall, Kent; Breccles Hall, Norfolk; Post Office, Wickhambreaux, Kent; Outbuilding at Slyfield Manor, Great Bookham, Surrey; Charlton House, Kent; Hatfield House, Herts; Cobham Hall, Kent; Kew Palace, Surrey; Broome Park, Kent; Raynham Hall, Norfolk; Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts; Pocock's School, Rye, Sussex; Garden Pavilion, Old Charlton, Kent; Balls Park, Hertford; Barnham court, Sussex; Cromwell House, Highgate; Tyttenhanger Park, St. Albans, Herts; White Hart Inn, Scole, Norfolk; House in High Street, Godalming, Surrey; Mackerye End, Wheathampsted, Herts; Bromley College, Kent; Middle Temple Gateway; Christ's Hospital, London; Groombridge Place, Kent; Ramsbury Manor, Wilts; Winchester School; Bluecoat School, Westminster; Hampton Court Palace; The Fountain Court, Hampton Court Palace; 'The Greenhouse', Kensington Gardens; Vowel's Cottage, Reading Street, Thanet; Farmhouse, Sarre, Kent; Cottage, Guilton, Kent; Morden College, Blackheath; House in Hyde Street, Winchester; Sparrowhatch, Bethersden, Kent; Chicheley Hall, Bucks; The Grange, Farnham, Surrey; Queen Anne's Gate, London; Unitarian Chapel, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; Pallant House, Chichester; Bradbourne, Larkfield, Kent; Building on domed crown of old cistern, Rye, Sussex; 179 Clapton Road, London; Friend's House, Croydon, Surrey; The Convent, Longbridge, Farnham, Surrey; Lockleys, Welwyn, Herts; Willmer House, Farnham, Surrey; Brick Alley Almshouses, Abingdon, Berks; 28 St. Andrew's Street, Hertford; 11 Tooks Court, London; Calleva House, Wallingford, Berks; Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent; Fitzwilliam Hall, Cambridge; The Old House, Sevenoaks, Kent; Rainham Hall, Essex; House in Knight Street, Sawbridgeworth; 40 Knight Street, Sawbridgeworth, Herts; House Opposite Church, Dedham, Essex; Tompkin's Alsmhouses, Abingdon, Berks; The Old Hall, Ormsby St. Margaret, Norfolk; Church House, Beckley, Sussex; House in Square, Wickham, Hants; Eastway House, Blandford, Dorset; Lincoln's Inn Fields; Ferox Hall, Tonbridge, Kent; Garden Room at Lamb House, Rye, Sussex; Delbridge House, Wingham, Kent; St. James's Street, Boodles Club; 39 West Street, Farnham, Surrey; Houses in West Stockwell Street, Colchester, Essex; House with four Venetian windows, King's Langley, Herts; St. James's Street, Brook's Club; House in Castle Street, Farnham, Surrey; House in Maltravers Street, Arundel, Sussex; Cottage near Ringmer, Sussex; Cullompton, Devon; House at King's Langley, Herts; Trinity Church Tower, Colchester, Essex; Little Coggeshall Abbey, Essex; Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Shenfield, Essex; Gifford's Hall, Nayland, Suffolk; Porch of Church of St. John the Baptist, Pebmarsh, Essex; St. Andrew's Church Porch, Sandon, Essex; Gatehouse, East Barsham Manor House, Norfolk; Layer Marney Towers of Hall, Essex; St. Mary's Church, Layer Marney, Essex; Sutton Place, near Guildford; Gatehouse, West Stow Hall, Suffolk; Little Leez or Leighs Priory, Essex; Brunger's Farm, Tenterden, Kent; Cale Hill Stables, Little Chart, Kent; Eastbury Manor House, Barking, Essex; Pocock's School, Rye, Sussex; Restoration House, Rochester, Kent; Barnham Court, Sussex; Old Charlton Church, Kent; 2 King's Bench Walk, London; 28 St. Andrew's Street, Hertford; The Convent, Farnham, Surrey; Gauged red brick doorway at 3, Parkshot, Richmond, Surrey; Abbey, Little Coggeshall, Essex; St. Nicholas Chapel, Little Coggeshall, Essex; Great Snoring Rectory, Great Snoring, Norfolk; Minor House, East Barsham, Norfolk; Small Hythe Church, Kent; Rye House, Hoddesdon, Herts; Layer Marney Church, Essex; Chignal Smealey Church, Essex; Layer Marney Towers or Hall, Essex; Sutton Place, Guildford, Surrey; Watlington Town Hall, Oxon; Slyfield Manor, Great Bookham, Surrey; Garden House at Old Charlton, Charlton, Kent; Cromwell House, Highgate, London; Richard's Charity Almshouses, Goodnestone, Kent; Window Pediment in Victoria and Albert Museum; 37 Crouch Street, Colchester, Essex; Archway at the Friary, Beverley, Yorks; Sturry Court, Kent; Hales Place, Tenterden, Kent; Brook Farm, Chislet, Kent; Breccles Hall, Norfolk; Arwarton Hall, Suffolk; Gateway attributed to Inigo Jones, Chesterton, Warwickshire; Forty Hall, Enfield, Middlesex; Old Star Inn, Spalding, Lincs; Courtyard, Barham Court, Sussex; Shenfield House, Killigrews, Margaretting, Essex; Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent; Carswell or Castlewell, Abingdon, Berks; Finch Den, Tenterden, Kent; West Stow Hall, Suffolk; Gate near Canterbury, Kent; Steps and Gate Pier at Church House, Northiam, Sussex; Gate House, Rolvenden, Kent; Redbourne Church; Elham, Kent; Cale Hill Stables, Little Chart; Wendover, Bucks; Montagu House, Colchester; Gray's Inn, W.C.; Feering Church Porch, Essex; Barbican House, Lewes; Curtis Green Farm, Kent; 102 High Street, Rye; Batemans, Burwash, Sussex; Beech House, Salehurst, Sussex; Rampyndene, Burwash, Sussex; Church Farm, Marden, Kent; Kings Head inn, Sissinghurst, Kent; Crundale, Wye, Kent; Domos, Northiam, Sussex; Mackerye End, Wheathampstead; Aston Bury, Stevenage, Herts; Thornbury Castle; Layer Marney Church; Oxburgh Church, Norfolk; Wymonham Church, Norfolk; St. Peter's Churchyard, Thanet; Roman Wall, Colchester, Essex; Trinity Church, Colchester; Little Wenham Hall, Suffolk; St. Cross Hospital, Hants; Dovecote, Boos Manor, Rouen; Modern Building built in Monk Bond, Stockholm; St. Osyth's Church, Essex; St. Nicholas Church, Chignal Smealey, Essex; West Stow Hall, Suffolk; Wye College, Kent; Chapel Viaduct, Earls Colne, Essex; Holy Trinity Church, Bradwell-Juxta-Coggeshall, Essex; Potter Heigham Church, Norfolk; Salmestone Grange, Margate, Kent; House at Yalding, Kent; Gifford's Hall, Suffolk; West Stow Hall, Suffolk; 56 Nothing Close, Salisbury.
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