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Figure 63
Cut-moulded mullion
at St. Luke's, Newport
Parish, Virginia.
too. Good examples are the gauged brickwork frontispieces, as employed for
Thomas Nelson House, Yorktown ( d .1729), the west door of St. John's par-
ish church ( c .1731-34), King William County, and for St. Stephen's Parish,
King and Queen's County, now known as Lower (Mattaponi Baptist) church
( c .1730-35), 30 miles north of Williamsburg. The latter being the handiwork
of master bricklayer David Minitree, discussed later in Chapter 4.
Virginia's richest planter was Robert 'King' Carter of Corotoman, Lancaster
County, discussed below, who built Christ Church in (1732) there; by as yet
unknown bricklayers. Hume (1993-94, 16) states:
'…its gauged and rubbed brick doorways [frontispieces], one with an arched and
the other an appexed pediment, were closely paralleled by the north and south
entrances to Rosewell'.
Further examples of gauged work are flat, or 'Jack', arches on the largely ori-
ginal 1700 front of 'The Wren Building' and similar arches and platt band, or
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