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Figure 18
Clip mould B - the top
templet seen on the cut-
moulded brick.
Figure 19
Clip mould A - the
bottom templet seen on
the cut-moulded brick.
Once all the bricks were cut to shape the building of the ornamental shafts
commenced with the first course of bricks being orientated precisely to ensure
that the bonding perfectly united, in a graceful manner, with the profiled
bricks of the corbelled, or oversailed, heads. Each successive course, or layer, of
bricks being maintained level, plumb and gauge; as well as checked for overall
regular shape on plan by the use of a mould, or template. The heads or caps,
single or joined on top of a stack of shafts, could also be wonderfully ornate, as
Wight (1972, 413) indicates, sometimes furnished with, '…
star-tops
having one
or two stars;
spur-tops
having blunted points with
scallops
between.'
