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2. Brickwork - Wikipedia

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   A leaf is as thick as the width of one brick, but a wall is said to be one brick thick if it as wide as the length of a brick. Accordingly, a single-leaf wall is a half brick thickness; a wall with the simplest possible masonry transverse bond [definition needed] is said to be one brick thick, and so on. [21]

3. Brick - Wikipedia

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   A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a unit primarily composed of clay , but is now also used informally to denote units made of other materials or other chemically cured construction blocks.

4. Roman brick - Wikipedia

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   Roman bricks in the Jewry Wall, Leicester.The 20th-century bracing arch in the background utilises modern bricks. Roman brick is a type of brick used in ancient Roman architecture and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered, or a modern adaptation inspired by the ancient prototypes.

5. Masonry - Wikipedia

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   A mason laying a brick on top of the mortar Bridge over the Isábena river in the Monastery of Santa María de Obarra, masonry construction with stones. Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, and pasted together by mortar.

6. Polychrome brickwork - Wikipedia

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   Polychrome brickwork also became popular in Europe in the later 19th century as part of the various medieval and Romanesque revivals. In France, the Menier Chocolate Factory in Noisiel, designed by Jules Saulnier and completed in 1872, is an early and very elaborate example, which is also noted for its early use of iron structure.

7. Course (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Sailor: Units are laid vertically on their shortest ends with their widest edge facing the wall surface. [1] The result is a row of bricks that looks similar to sailors manning the rail. Shiner or rowlock stretcher: Units are laid on the long narrow side with the broad face of the brick exposed. [6] Brick positions

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9. List of walls - Wikipedia

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   Part of the southern section of the Chester city walls showing the base of a former drum tower and the River Dee The Roman walls of Lugo are a UNESCO World Heritage Site The Walls of Ston are a series of defensive stone walls, originally more than 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long, that surrounded and protected the city of Ston, in Dalmatia, part of the Republic of Ragusa, in what is now southern ...