# Pargeting

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{{Short description|Decorative or waterproof plaster applied to building walls}}
[[File:Pargeting, County Museum, Clare.jpg|thumb|Pargeting on the upper wall of the [County Museum](/source/Ancient_House%2C_Clare) in [Clare, Suffolk](/source/Clare%2C_Suffolk).]]
[[File:Ipswich Ancient House.jpg|thumb|right|The [Ancient House](/source/Ancient_House%2C_Ipswich) in [Ipswich](/source/Ipswich) has a particularly fine example of pargeting, depicting scenes from the four continents. When the hall was built in 1670, [Australia](/source/Australia) and [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica) had not yet been discovered by Europeans, and the Americas were considered a single continent.]]

'''Pargeting''' (or sometimes called''' Wall pargetting''') is a decorative or waterproof [plaster](/source/plaster)ing applied to building walls. The term, if not the practice, is particularly associated with the [English counties](/source/English_county) of [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk) and [Essex](/source/Essex). In the neighbouring county of [Norfolk](/source/Norfolk), the term "pinking" is used.<ref>{{cite book |last=Darley |first=Gillian |year=1983 |title=Built in Britain |place=London |publisher=[Weidenfeld & Nicolson](/source/Weidenfeld_%26_Nicolson) |isbn=0-297-78312-2 |page=56}}</ref>

[Patrick Leigh Fermor](/source/Patrick_Leigh_Fermor) describes similar decorations on pre-World War II buildings in [Linz](/source/Linz), Austria. "Pargeted façades rose up, painted chocolate, green, purple, cream and blue. They were adorned with medallions in high relief and the stone and plaster scroll-work gave them a feeling of motion and flow."<ref>Fermor, Patrick Leigh, "A Time of Gifts," at 147 (New York Review Books, 2005)({{ISBN|978-1-59017-165-3}}).</ref>

Pargeting derives from the word 'parget', a Middle English term that is probably derived from the Old French ''pargeter'' or ''parjeter'', to throw about, or ''porgeter'', to roughcast a wall.<ref>''[Webster's Dictionary](/source/Webster's_Dictionary)''.</ref> However, the term is more usually applied only to the decoration in relief of the plastering between the [studwork](/source/wall_stud) on the outside of [half-timber](/source/Half-timbering) houses, or sometimes covering the whole wall.<ref name=eb />

The devices were stamped on the wet plaster. This seems generally to have been done by sticking a number of pins in a board in certain lines or curves, and then pressing on the wet plaster in various directions, so as to form [geometric](/source/geometric)al figures. Sometimes these devices are in relief, and in the time of [Elizabeth I of England](/source/Elizabeth_I_of_England) represent figures, [bird](/source/bird)s and [foliage](/source/foliage). Fine examples can be seen at [Ipswich](/source/Ipswich), [Maidstone](/source/Maidstone), and [Newark-on-Trent](/source/Newark-on-Trent).<ref name=eb>{{EB1911|wstitle=Pargetting}}</ref>

The term is also applied to the lining of the inside of smoke [flue](/source/flue)s to form an even surface for the passage of the smoke.<ref name=eb />

==See also==
*[Harl](/source/Harl)
*[Parge coat](/source/Parge_coat)
*[Plasterwork](/source/Plasterwork)
*[Yeseria](/source/Yeseria)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{commons category-inline|Pargeting}}
*{{cite web |url= http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/pargeting/pargeting.htm |last=Buxbaum |first=Tim |year=2001 |title=Pargeting |work=The Building Conservation Directory}}

Category:Architectural elements
Category:Plastering
Category:Wallcoverings

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