Agriculture Reference
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Figure 65
A selection of cut-
moulded rubbing bricks
out of the archival
collection of the
Jamestown Rediscovery
Project (left to right as
1-3 above). (Courtesy
of the Jamestown
Rediscovery Project of
the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia
Antiquities)
Post-Restoration English Gauged Brickwork
This dramatic change in the design and detailing of English brick buildings
is most noticeable within a 50 to 60 mile radius of the city, especially from the
1690s. This can be seen in both country and town residences of the wealthy
and rising new breed of middle-class merchants. One need only look to such
properties as, Aspley House, Aspley Guise (Bedfordshire) (1692), Winslow
Hall, Winslow (Buckinghamshire) (1699-1702); The Grange, Farnham,
(Surrey) (1702); Pallant House, Chichester (Sussex) (
c
.1713); and, at the dawn
of the Georgian period, Bradbourne, Larkfield (Kent) (1714). Brunskill and
Clifton-Taylor (1977, 32-3) in describing the fine brickwork of Pallant House,
suggest that:
…not only are the window-heads exquisitely gauged and provided with a carved
emblem on every key-block, but… cut back at their base in delicately recessed
curves….
Lloyd (1925, 216) describes most eloquently the contrasting colour and preci-
sion of the ornamental gauged brickwork to the standard brickwork of the east
wing of Bradbourne:
…The dressings are bright red bricks gauged. The pilasters are built of buff
stocks with bright red bricks at the angles; all gauged and only one course in six
bonds with the wallings.
