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Figure 64
A gauged arch with
projecting keystone
below a gauged belt
course at 'Rosewell',
Gloucester County,
Virginia, 1726-37.
(Courtesy of Mesick,
Cohen, Wilson and
Baker Architects)
'belt course', on The Brafferton (1723) and the President's House (1732) at
the College of William and Mary in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. There are
also some fine gauged arches in the ruins of 'Rosewell' (1726-37), Gloucester
County, Virginia (Fig. 64 - see also page 228 where 'Rosewell' is discussed fur-
ther). According to Carl Lounsbury Senior Architectural Historian, Colonial
Williamsburg, the latter is possibly by Minitree.
There are a collection of cut and rubbed and gauged bricks from the first
Jamestown Church, and the Statehouse (Fig. 65), under the care of the Senior
Curator for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project of the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA). Among the collection are:
1.
An example of a surviving cut-moulded brick from Jamestown Church
which was built in 1640. This subsequently burned and was either repaired
or re-built at a later date. This brick was later used as a paving, placed on
its ornamental side down and bed up. Evidence suggests that this brick
may have been part of the base of a frontispiece that was on the church as
early as the 1640s. It could, however, be from a late 1670s rebuild that was
subsequently taken down when a tower was added in the 1690s.
2.
Brick mullions (cavetto mouldings) also from the church, which possibly
date from 1640s and 1650s or alternatively are from the 1670s re-building.
3.
A cut-moulded brick from the Statehouse in Jamestown with traces of red
wash found on it. This brick came from the excavations of the site in 1906.
The statehouse was begun in the mid-1660s, rebuilt 1684-85 after a fire in
1676 and abandoned after a further fire in 1698, when the Capitol building
moved to Williamsburg.
