DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE 



The brick chimneys are an interesting feature of Surrey architecture : 

 although there are none of the more ornate with moulded shafts left, 

 yet the chimneys at Abbot's Hospital at Guildford are as fine and digni- 

 fied as anything can be. The variety and skilful proportions and 



Fig. 3. Leapale House, Guildford. 



arrangements of many of the cottage chimneys in the county are not to 

 be surpassed. This arises no doubt from the fact that these cottages 

 were not purely agricultural but were the homes of flourishing weavers 

 and mechanics. Something must perhaps be allowed for native taste, 

 since neither in brick nor in timber work do we anywhere find those 

 extravagances that so often have to be 

 condoned for their antiquarian interest. 



A particularly graceful chimney is 

 that at Abbot's and elsewhere in which 

 the octagon shaft gradually changes in 

 the head to the star shape. The star 

 shaft and head is a frequent form and other 

 features are the use of the projecting bricks 

 called crow rests and of crow steps to the 

 set-offs (Fig. 4). These are constantly 

 found, although the tops have commonly 

 been knocked off and only the stumps 

 remain. A chimney at Shere is dated 

 1620, and there is reason to think this is 

 about the date of those with ornamental 



heads. Fig. 4. Crow Rests and Crow Steps. 



1 The subject has been treated with some fulness elsewhere; see Surr. Arch. Coll. iv. 253, and 

 Old Cottage, etc., Architecture, West Surrey. 



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