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A variety of special bricks were used for decorative features. These included rubbed voussiors, cant bricks, and cornered bricks.
Rubbed bricks were first cut with a saw, and then rubbed against another brick or stone. Bricks could also be moulded or carved with a wire-saw, files, and strips of copper.
For example:
rubbed red brick voussior (Edwardian)
cant brick, with one chamfered edge
round cornered brick used in porch (late Victorian)
Victorian, used for frieze below roof
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