Identifier: cu31924020587436 (find matches)
Title: English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, John Starkie, 1844-1930
Subjects: Ironwork Decoration and ornament, English Architecture
Publisher: London, B. T. Batsford
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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barbearing a pair of water-leaves, and aU with single light scrollsabove. Over the lock-rail are twisted spikes with scrolls, andthe dog-bars are arrow-pointed with a button half-way up theshaft. It opens under a deep horizontal panel of scrolls and water-leaves, repeating four ways from an oval centre. The panel isbetween two wide and handsome pilasters, more decorated thanthe gates, finishing above in light pyramids with three water-leaffinials ending in twisted points over buttons. Between theseis the small central pyramid with the monogram C.J. in a rectanglebetween scrolls and under a large flame-twist finial. A plainrailing with arrow points and handsome pilasters extends on eitherside, and connects to the pilasters with buttress brackets. At OldPark, also in Enfield, is an entrance with plain gates with charac-teristic fringes and dog-bars, between pilasters of scrolled barsand water-leaves, with pyramids ending in button and twist-point ^~**- foim.f^y at •No4h.£EdHou&e.
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Ins;;: tlMHUMHl 1 i; J-* •«r. FIG. 37. AT WOVINGTON, SUSSEX. DraZVtl by F. LISHMAN. 114 Work by George Buncker 115 finials between water-leaves. The central pyramid, on a borderof scrolls and water-leaves in pairs, has three flame-tuft finials. A more usual gate is drawn by Ebbetts from Baker Street,Enfield, comprising a narrow and vertical central panel of arabesquedesign extending below the scrolled lock-rail. The dog-barsare arrow-pointed with a button in the shaft, and every horizontalis fringed with button points emerging from leaves seated in CscroUs. The pilasters are wide, of richly scrolled and arabesqueddesign, extending to the ground and with unusually large water-leaves. The overthrow consists of two pyramids of G scrollsover the pilasters, over inverted U s with flame-tuft finials ; anda centre raised over a horizontal border of scrolls with laurelsprays and acanthus bearing a heater shaped shield of arms. Theseare between handsome railings with pilasters bearing fiame

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