| Angle Corbels: | The process of corbelling (projecting) a quoin, and occasionally an internal angle, to change its sh... | |
| Apron: | Projecting panel below a window sill. The panel may be ornamented or of a contrasting brick.... | |
| Basket Weave: | Sets of three stretchers laid horizontally and vertically in alternate groups. They can be inclined ... | |
| Battered Buttress: | Sloping pier to increase the lateral strength of a wall. The bed joints of the Buttress are set at 9... | |
| Block Bonded Quoin: | The use of contrasting face bricks to create a series of alternating blocks (usually three courses h... | |
| Bricknogging: | A panel of face bricks used as an infill between the members of a timber frame. It is a decorative p... | |
| Circular Work: | Walls that are circular on plan. If the radius is large enough the wall can be bonded in the normal ... | |
| Corbels: | Projections that can be along the face of a wall, as a String Band (one to three courses), or at a q... | |
| Crow Stepping: | The finish to a gable wall, when there is a parapet, by a series of large horizontal steps as an alt... | |
| Decorative Bonds: | Used to add interest, and create a pleasing appearance, to external or internal walls; there is need... | |
| Dentils: | Also known as Dentilation. The projection (say 30mm) of alternate Headers, in the same course, to pr... | |
| Diaper Pattern: | Large plain areas of walling can be decorated by using blue-flared or vitrified headers to produce p... | |
| Dog-Tooth: | Similar to a Dentil Course but each Header is laid at 45 degs. to expose one corner in a continuous ... | |
| Dressings: | Decorative external brickwork that uses superior bricks, and workmanship, to surround a door or wind... | |
| Dutch Gable: | A gable with a parapet when the outline is shaped first with a large convex curve followed by an equ... | |
| Gable Shoulder: | May be known as a Springer and used at the foot of a brick gable when the roof is to be finished wit... | |
| Gauged Work: | The most skilled work of the craft. The bricks, known as Rubbers, are made oversize from a clay with... | |
| Glass Block Work: | See Bricks and Materials.... | |
| Herringbone Pattern: | Created by setting the bricks, in alternate rows, at 90 degs. to each other but at 45 degs. to the h... | |
| Lacing Course: | One or two courses of brickwork to provide horizontal reinforcement in walls of flint or cobble.... | |
