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