This page shows a wonderful example of brickwork - a simple arch which you wouldn't normally notice. It is by the Fyndon gate off Lady Wootton's Green.

Detail of the right side showing the 'label' (the bit coming along the wall horizontally, then downwards.

(Designed to throw off rainwater, but also decorative - Lever and Harris).

Detail of the right side showing the end of what is called a 'label'.

All these shapes would be made by hand, by rubbing the bricks individually on stone.

Detail of the wonderful 'cogging' - the bricks laid diagonally.

Another type of formation is called 'toothing', which is when the brick headers are made to stick out like square teeth - but when they are diagonal to make sharp teeth, as here, it is called 'cogging'. (Lever and Harris).

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