Week 8 (Final)

Example 10 (The Sacred Heart Church - Front Building)








Description
The Sacred Heart Church can be separated into two main buildings, one at the front, facing Avoca St, and one at the back, facing the other side. For the front building, no standard bond is used, the building was built with different kind of decorative bonds, may be a combination of Flemish bond with English bond. A lot of special cut of bricks are also in used.

Bond
Not standard bond ( a combination of Flemish and English bond)

Jointing
Iron joint

Surface Texture
Rough surface

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Combination of yellow, orange and brown colour

Arch
Venetian arch

Defects
Some bricks, for example, the arch bricks, were not cut well but filled with mortar instead. Therefore, it does not look much tidy.



Example 9 (The Sacred Heart Church - Front Building)










Description
The back building of the Sacred Heart Church was built with dark red / brown colour of bricks. It is much darker comparing to the front building. Moreover, some circular bricks were also used for the decoration or a little support for the building, which they formed shapes that looks really gorgeous. Besides, English garden wall bond was used for the brick walls.

Bond
English garden wall bond

Jointing
Tuck point joint

Surface Texture
Very smooth

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Dark red / brown colour

Arch
Special arches made with circular bricks

Defects
n/a

Week 8

Example 8 (Glen Mervyn Centre -Red Cross NSW)








Description
The Glen Mervyn Centre is a two storey brick house providing services like childcare. It is mainly built with dark brown colour bricks with mortar in light grey colour.

Bond
Strecher / Colonial (Columns besides of the Arches)

Jointing
Tuck point

Surface Texture
Quite smooth

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Mixture of dark brown colour

Arch
Semi-circular / Flat gauged arch (at window)

Defects
Some part of the wall was collapse but not fixed




Example 7 ( A Funnel of the Centennial)










Description
The Funnel was located in front of an estate in Randwick. It is supported mainly constructed by bricks with grey colour mortar.

Bond
English cross bond

Jointing
Tuck point

Surface Texture
A bit rough

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Mixture of red/ orange colour

Arch
n/a

Defects
Parts of the structure were damaged

Week7

Example 6 (St Mary's Primary School Erskineville)










Description
The St Mary’s Primary School was built with a combination of red and dark brown bricks with iron joints. It is a two storey building with decorative patterns of bricks for the walls, like the cross shape on the wall and the decorated brickwork below the arch.

Bond
Strecher bond

Jointing
Iron joint

Surface Texture
Smooth

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Mixture of red/ dark brown colour

Arch
Venetian arch

Defects
n/a

Example 5 (St Mary's Catholic Church Erskineville)










Description
The St Mary’s Catholic Church was built with red bricks with weather joints. It is a tall church with a tower and a beautiful facade. It was built next to a busy traffic. There are also some special decorative patterns of bricks for the walls.

Bond
English bond

Jointing
Weather joint

Surface Texture
Quite smooth

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Mixture of brown/ dark brown colour

Arch
n/a

Defects
The edges of the bricks were corrode and turn black which may be caused by acid rain or gas emission from the vehicles.

Week 6

Example 4 (All Saints' Anglican Church)









Description
The All Saints’ Anglican Church has a beautiful and colourful brick work structure. It contains lots of decorative components, like crosses made with different colours of bricks, special cutting of bricks for the arch and other places. Another interesting part is that the mortar is red in colour.

Bond
Flemish (the walls with “+” shape decoration) / special design (the walls with the cross)

Jointing
Tuck point joint

Surface Texture
Smooth / a bit rough

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Mixture use of red, orange ,yellow and dark colour

Arch
Some kind of pointed arches with a crown (at the door) / Venetian arches (for the windows)

Defects
Some bricks were damaged with corrosion but not fixed

Example 3 (Petersham Town Hall)








Description
The Petersham Town Hall building is a structure built with bricks in different colours. It seems that king closer bricks were used for the windows. Besides, a mixture use of stretcher and rake bonds were used. Also, brick on edge was used on top of the low level walls.

Bond
Strecher / rake bond

Jointing
Rake/ Tuck point

Surface Texture
Very smooth

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Mixture use of red, orange and dark colour

Arch
n/a

Defects
Parts of the structure were damaged

Week 5

Example 2 (St James Church)

Description
The St James Church is an old two storey building. It was built with clay bricks by the convicts during the early 1800’s. Then several refurbishment and new works were under taken. Therefore most of the mortar went off and were coated with new layers of white materials.

Bond
Flemish bond

Jointing
Properly weather joints (but it is hard to consider as most of the mortar went off and were coated with new layers of white materials)

Surface Texture
Very Rough surface

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Mixture of brown and red colour

Arch
Semi-circular with special cutting of bricks

Defects
Most of the surface mortar went off

Example 1 (St James Road Court)










Description
The St James Road Court is a two storey building made with dark colour bricks. The wall was built with stretcher bond with light grey colour mortar.

Bond
Flemish bond

Jointing
Tuck point

Surface Texture
Very smooth surface

Structural / Non-Structural
Structural

Bricks Colour/s
Brown/ red colour

Arch
n/a

Defects
n/a