Agriculture Reference
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Figure 21
Cut and rubbed
chimney stacks,
Chenies Manor House
(Buckinghamshire),
1523-26. (Reproduced
by kind permission
of Mrs MacLeod
Matthews)
Some cut and rubbed chimneys would, like some other areas of face brick-
work during this period, have been finished with a colour wash as Woodforde
(1976, 48) records that at Collyweston, Lincolnshire, in 1504, a deficiency in
redness was helped out with:
vijlb [7 pounds] of red ocker [ochre] with 1oz. [Ounce] of the Glovers lether,
vijd [7 pence]. Item to John Bradley wiff for xiiij [14] gallons of small ale for the
said cheney of bryk, vjd [6 pence].
The technique used by the hewers to finish their axed work could vary in how
they responded to the nature of the brick, their own style and standards of
individual workmanship. Some might rub their axing marks smooth, whilst oth-
ers liked to leave them visible. This decision might also make an allowance for
the viewing distance so that if the feature was high up, it might be roughly
axed, yet it would appear neat and to profile to the viewer at ground level.
