16 Facts About Running bond

Some examples of Flemish Running bond incorporate stretchers of one colour and headers of another.

Great variety of monk Running bond patterns allow for many possible layouts at the quoins, and many possible arrangements for generating a lap.

In spite of these complexities and their associated costs, the Running bond has proven a common choice for constructing brickwork in the north of Europe.

Such an example of a raking monk Running bond layout is shown in the New Malden Library, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London.

Many other particular adjustments of course alignment exist in monk Running bond, generating a variety of visual effects which differ in detail, but often having the effect of directing a viewing eye diagonally down the wall.

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Bond's horizontally extended proportion suits long stretches of masonry such as garden walls or the run of brickwork over a ribbon window; conversely, the Running bond is less suitable for a surface occupied by many features, such as a Georgian facade.

However, whilst the heading courses are identical with those found in the standard English Running bond, the stretching courses alternate between a course composed entirely of stretchers, and a course composed of stretchers half off-set relative to the stretchers two courses above or below, by reason of a header placed just before the quoins at either end.

The Running bond is widely found in Northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Large areas of English cross Running bond can appear to have a twill like characteristic, an effect caused by the unbroken series of perpends moving diagonally down the Running bond.

Standard English garden wall Running bond, headers are used as quoins for the middle stretching course in order to generate the lap, with queen closers as the penultimate brick at either end of the heading courses.

All bricks in this Running bond are headers, but for the lap-generating quoin three-quarter bat which offsets each successive courses by half a header.

Header Running bond is often used on curving walls with a small radius of curvature.

All bricks in this Running bond are stretchers, with the bricks in each successive course staggered by half a stretcher.

Rat-trap Running bond substantially observes the same pattern as Flemish Running bond, but consists of rowlocks and shiners instead of headers and stretchers.

Dearne's Running bond substantially observes the same pattern as English Running bond, but uses shiners in place of stretchers.

Pinwheel Running bond is made of four bricks surrounding a square half-brick, repeated in a square grid.