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Church, 486 Old Northern Rd

This church has stretcher bonds with half bricks on the top of most walls. The bricks are a consistant light brown/ light cream colour. The bricks are structural and there is some weathering on the bricks. The mortar is flush and has no defects other than weathering. Most weathering on the bricks occurs outside its roofed area (the brickwork in the background) as one can see the darkened mortar on the half bricks at the roof line. Below the weep holes (an interesting three-hole design) there is some discolouring perhaps due to impurities in the cavity that run down and leak out when the wall gets moist. The church has an attractive, narrow window slit in its side (around the corner from the cross) which means the bricks to the left of the window would need to take all the load of the bricks above. It is interesting to note that none of the brick walls of the church are flat – each one has a gradient greater than 15 degrees.