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McCullock's craftsmen carried out much of the exquisite
in situ
carved
gauged work on the many Queen Anne styled properties around Chelsea and
Cadogan Square as well as the stylistic development (humorously titled 'Pont-
Street Dutch' buildings) of the later period around the Kensington and
Knightsbridge areas of London. 'Pont-Street Dutch', supposedly based on
Flemish Renaissance architecture, was fashionable in the 1880s, making much
use of panels of gauged brickwork, elaborate gables and strapwork. One of its
most successful protagonists was Sir Ernest George (1839-1922).
According to the London Post Office Directory of 1885, John McCullock
was an architectural modeller working out of 384 Kennington Road, where
they were in 1890; but then listed as an architectural sculptor. In the 1899 edi-
tion, the listing is for J. McCullock Ltd, Sculptors and Modellers, Monumental
Masons, Woodcarving etc., at a new address of Harleford Mews, Magee Street,
Kennington Park. Perhaps as a reflection of the architectural changes fol-
lowing these years, the company is listed as J. McCullock Ltd, Fibrous Plaster
Decorators in the edition of 1910.
Measuring Gauged Work
With regard to measuring gauged work at the beginning of the nineteenth cen-
tury Pasley remarks that ornamental parts of the work are, like the earlier peri-
ods, charged extra and by different methods to standard walling and lists them.
Removing that not related to gauged work, his list reads (Pasley, 1826, 251-52):
3rd. Gauged and rubbed arches. These are measured in superficial feet, accord-
ing to the area of the figure contained between the intrados, the extrados, and
the extremities of each.
4th. The points of groined arches. These require bricklayers of more than usual
skill, and are very troublesome. They are measured by the lineal foot.
6th. Rubbed splays. These imply the fitting of the brickwork over the extra-
dos, and on each side of the skewbacks or gauged arches, and all other oblique
work…to be cut but rubbed….it is measured by lineal measure along the outline
of all the curved or oblique lines….
8th. Rubbed splays to angles. Rubbing as well as cutting is necessary when those
splays appear on the outside of an ornamental brick building, as in angular bows.
These angles may of course be salient as well as re-entering, and are also meas-
ured like the former, by the lineal foot, but are paid at a higher rate.
12th. Cornices or other mouldings set in putty. These are charged by superficial
measure, not by taking the net height, as it would appear in the elevation of a
building, but by straining a line over all the projections, and into all the cavities,
so as to embrace the whole outline of those mouldings, as they appear in profile.
