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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used for the very decorative gate toFenton House at Hampstead (Fig. 54). Here they are continuedto the ground by vertical bars, scrolled at the base, with twocrescents, finishing above in a large trefoil of acanthus, now lost.Below the lock-rail of the gate are panels as at Twickenhambut with unusual dog-bars. The pyramid has G.C.S. in mono-gram in a stepped rectangle, with outer scrolls and bay leaves inacanthus. A pair of gates to Twickenham House with horizontal tops,have pilasters of the Greek-wave pattern, without pyramids, andthe scrolled overthrow is imperfect. The lock-rail is of C scrollsplaced horizontally in pairs, and above and below are vertical barsin pairs with ends scrolled next the lock-rail as in the FentonHouse gate. A small but beautifully designed garden gate at Inwood, nearTemplecombe, has the tapering spikes with the spherical swellingbelow the apex for dog-bars, and twisted spikes between thrown-over leaves as a fringe to the horizontal, and also as finials to
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SCALE OPL FIG. 54 FENTON HOUSE, HAMPSTEAD. Drawn by ARTHUR STRATTON. 150 English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries the lyre pilasters. The gate consists of a boldly scrolled centralpanel and an overthrow, its enrichments ending in arrow pointsand in acorns. A gate to Kent House, Chiswick Mall is plain, with pilastersof vertical bars, scrolled over the lock-rail and cut obliquely atthe top by the ascending horizontal bar of the railings, a weakand happily uncommon treatment. The overthrow consists of alarge pair of G scroUs with water leaves, etc., including two boldtendrils with barbed ends. The same smith was much employed in Essex, where he madefrequent use of a peculiarly mannered border between the lock-rails of his gates, by which many of them can be identified.Such repetition is rare and the more remarkable since othertelling and important features are constantly varied, as usualin smithcraft. The design is continued through the pilastersor panels, and as this border

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