W TIIEOKY OF ARCHITECTUKE.

I3uok II.
2'28ia. Mason.
body of the walls to be filled in with strong concrete, conip ised
of 1 part of
pjrouiifl stone lime and o parts of clean sharp gravel, filling in
interstices.
At
every 2 feet 6 inches iu height a double course of bricks is to be set in
mortar
and at every
8
feet 6 inches in height a bonding through stone, from 10 inches to
1 foot
3
inches deep, is to be fixed. Small stone chippings may be mixed
with the
gravel forming the concrete.
Regularity in the quoin stones is not desired, but they may be worked and set in any
reasonable scantling so as best to bond in, and harmonise with, the
intermediate
rubble. The upper beds of the stones to be laid with a slight
inclination
outwards,
and as close as their nature will allow. Every precaution is to be taken to avoid
risk of the settling of the work from imperfect beds and open
joints. The work
is to be carried up regularly all round the building. In the case of a church with
a tower, the walls of the latter are to be specified to be built up very slowly and
without b-ing bonded into thos^e of the church, but are to have slip joints or chases
worked in them for forming the connection
;
this is in all ca.ses to be so free as to
allow for the settlement of the masonry without injury to the work in the church
walls; with this exception, no part of any wall is at any time to be raised more
than three feet higher than anotlior, during the progress of the works.
The walls of the toiucr of a church are to built quite solid, and inve ted arches are
to be turned under all the large apertures therein. AH flat headed
apertures are
to be covered with York (or other) lintels, of thickness
proportionate to the width
of the opening.
A cornice and blocking course, scantliug ... by ...
,
moulded, to be provided
according to the drawings, the bed to be .'<uch that the weight of each block of
stone in the projecting part shall not be equal to that on the bed by
one-fourth of
its cubic contents. Tht same to be executed according to the drawings
; to have
proper sunk water joints, and to be channelled and plugged wit ii lead at all i lie joints.
String-courses toy>e . . . inches by . . . inches, throated and bevelled on the upper
face, and the joints plugged with lead.
Blockimj course, as shown on the drawings, . . . inches high, . . . thii-k on tiie bed,
and ... on the top, plugged with lead at all the joints, with solid block at the
quoins, returned at least 24 inches.
The quoins, jambs, string-courses, hoodnioulds, buttress weatherings,
copings, and
dressings generally, to be strictly worked according to detail drauings,
and to be
dragged, chopped, tooled, or rubbed (according to the qualify of the stone) so as
to be truly worked in every particular.
AW \A\e tracery &nA. mouldings to be set out full size, and cut and set to the right
jointing, as approved by the architect or the clerk of the works.
Face the walls of . . . with Minton's ghized (or other) tiles, vnlue . . . per yard
superficial, to be secured with cramps of stout copper wire inserted in holes in
edges of the tiles.
All the
immng tiles to be of the best quality, free from blemishes; to be set iu
Roman cement, and to have all cement removed from their face after the work is
finished
;
the edges of the tiles to be rubbed, where necessary, to ensure neatness,
and cai'e is to be taken that the tiles are not injured l>y the workmen after they
are laid.
The base mouldings of the tower, jambs, and arches of the windows and doors
throughout the building, and whatsoever parts are tinted
. . . upon the elevations,
are to be of tooled or dragged masonry.
The plinths, eaves, string courses, and the labels over the windows and doors, are to
be of Ketton (or other suitable) stone, finished with a dragged or tooled face.
The coping
of
the gables to be of Bramley Fall (or other stone that is not porous),
worked as shown, and the apices of the (here enumerate which) gables to be
surmounted by crosses worked in Ketton or other stone, according to drawing,
set
with copper dowels.
Balustrades to be provided of the heights and sizes shown on the drawings. The
balusters to be wrought out of one stone, allowing at Irast one inch of joggle at their
cuds into the plinth and impost. All the vertical joints to be avoU plugged with
lead; the imposts to be cramped with cast iron (or bell metal), and the whole to
be fe-ecuivly fixe(l. The half balu.stcrs to be worked out of the same block of
stone as their adjoining ptdestal.
Columns and pilasters, with their pedestals, capitals, bases, plinths, &c., and en-
tabhature, to be fixed as shown on the drawings. The columns and pilasters to be
monoliths, or not to be in courses of more than . . . blocks of stone. The architraves
to be joggled from those resting on the columns or pilasters themselves, and these
as well as the frieze and cornice to break joint over the architrave. The archi-
traves, if blocks nP stnnp nMli Vio annnlio,^! I.ivrro o>TrifrlT fr, V,o In ^., Ul% t^^,^