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disciplined students; all characteristic of the prevailing social attitudes of late
Victorian England.
An assessment of what was being taught to apprentice bricklayers about
gauged work in the technical colleges of the late Victorian period, can be
gleaned from the syllabus and examination questions of
The City and Guilds,
Subject 57, Brickwork
. The following questions are taken from the Ordinary
Grade (as opposed to the advanced Honours Grade) from 1897 to 1899
(Richards, 1901, 126-31):
1897 Arches - Names of the different kinds and mode of construction.
Bond in arches, and description of their various parts, such as sof-
fit, skewback etc
1897 Draw to a scale of 1
[inch] to 1
[foot] the elevation of a camber
or straight arch, 14
[inches] on the face and 9
[inches] soffit,
for a 3' [foot] opening.
1897 Brick - cutting (A) Setting out work in detail from architectural
drawings, and obtaining the templets, moulds etc., e.g. arches
moulded and plain, cornices, caps pediments, pilasters, aprons,
and gauged work generally. (B) Cutting and finishing any required
piece of gauged work from templets and moulds supplied.
1898 Draw to a scale of
1
⁄
8
[one eighth] half the elevation of a moulded
segment arch for a 3
[foot] opening. The moulding to be 2¼
[inches], the face of arch 12
[inches], the rise 3
[inches], and
the soffit 4½
[inches]. Also show four top courses of the reveal
and skewback in Flemish bond.
1898 Annexed (Fig. 218) is the plan of a 1½ brick wall in English bond,
with a Gauged pilaster projecting from it. Draw the alternate
courses to a scale of
1
⁄
8
[One eighth]
1899 Draw to a 1
[inch] scale the elevation of an equilateral or Gothic
arch, 12
[foot] opening, showing in the
arch two ways of filling in [tympanum].
[inches] on face, for a 3
1899 To a scale of ¾
[foot] draw the
elevation of a plain [un-moulded] segmental arch, 14
[three quarters of an inch] to 1
[inches]
on the face, for a 2
[foot] opening. The rise to be 12
[inches].
Finally, from
The City and Guilds
,
Subject 57
-
Brickwork 'Honours Grade'
(Richards, 1901, 132):
1900 To a 1-in [inch] scale and for a 3-ft. 6 in opening, draw the elevation
of a gauged arch 14 ins [inches] on the face, with a projecting and
