Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 100
The two parts of the
rubbing brick directly
after being cleaved to
size with the large brick
axe.
Gauged Enrichments
The brickwork of this period was at first a consolidation of the fine work of
the post-Restoration period. This was especially true of gauged work in the
early part of the eighteenth century, which continued to be employed to great
artistic effect through the personal input of artisan architects and master brick-
layers. Later, as the century progressed, its use became increasingly tame and
style-bound, as the period settled into a rigid architect-led, or pattern-book
copied, conformity, revealing the all-important loss of creative craft input.
Importantly, with this change, bricklaying began being viewed no longer as an
'art', but rather as a 'craft' where craftsmen were losing intellectual and imagi-
native input in the design and creation of their work.
Gauged Arches
The shapes of arches over window openings were subject to the variations of
fashions. As Cruickshank and Wyld (1975, 161) states:
During the 1700s straight arches were common but were almost totally super-
seded between 1710-30 by a segmental variety. In the 1730s the straight arch
reappeared once again in force and although it held the field throughout the
rest of the Georgian period it was occasionally challenged at the end of the 18th
century and beginning of the 19th by the semi-circular arch and less often by
elliptical and ogee specimens.
