English Bond Brick Walls

stretcher bond - flemish bond

Garden walls built using English bond are one brick wide. As with any wall built of brick, no two adjacent vertical joints should be in line.

With a straight wall this is not a problem, it's just alternate courses of headers and stretchers with each joint on the stretcher course centred on a header brick on the course below.

When turning a corner at the end of a straight run needs the use of a Queen Closer (coloured blue) on each course.

Joining into a wall part way along the wall, is the same as for the end turn except that a Queen Closer is only needed on every other course.

Bricks and Bats