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The material
Although the Romans made and used brick widely when they occupied England and Wales, it wasn’t until the mid-seventeenth century that it was widely made and used again as a building material. Sometimes you do find brick in mediaeval buildings, such as churches, but this was re-used brick from the demolished Roman buildings. In the Tudor period it was made again but only used for special features such as fireplaces and chimneys or churches - usually only the wealthy could afford to use it. By the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was a common building material across the UK and most of England’s Victorian and Edwardian terraced houses and tenements are built from brick.
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