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Figure 6
A fine gauged
brickwork doorway,
built of stone-like buff-
coloured coastal bricks,
71 Gasthuisstraat,
Poperinge, Belgium
(1579).
doorway treatment is completely different - cut and shaped with great care
and then laid with joints of 1-2 mm and cross-joints varying from 1 to 5 mm.
It may also be noted that this gauged work had been finished
in situ
, similar
to the dressing of stone with a drag by a stonemason (Fig. 7). This is known
in Flanders as 'planing' due to the use of a stoneplane, or 'steenschaaf', as
it is referred to in Flanders, discussed below. There is, however, a noticeable
