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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lasters other panels of verticalbars with scrolled cresting rising towards the stone piers. Someother garden gates also bear monograms and coronets, and asmall pair in an arched opening reproduce the M and D in thelock-rail. These gates differ from all others in the southern counties, butreproduce the peculiar horizontal panels of scrolled bars converg-ing to a central circle seen in the gates to Jesmond Hall, New-castle, Chester-le-Street, and Tanfield to the north of Durham. In the garden gates at Penshurst the space above the lock-railis mainly occupied by a panel of repeating scrolls with numerouslily leaves in pairs forming the centre, and the overthrow is apyramid of scrolls wi-th acanthus leaves centring in a diapereddrapery bearing a fleur-de-lis and barons coronet. There arecurious gates at Chiddingfold, of plain bars with four lightlyscrolled vertical borders, and a lock-rail to match, while beloware scrolled panels. Fixed panels of- plain bars with loosely Country Gates 177
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178 English Ironwork in the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries scrolled pyramid tops are on either side, and between theman important overthrow comprising two rectangular panels,one above the other, the lower with a filling of scrolls, and theupper with monogram P.M., supported hy scrolls bearing acanthusand laurel leaves. The gate at North Cray Church (Plate lv) recalls some-what that to Dulwich College, by George Buncker. It is fixedbetween two wide panels, which match the gate, but have centresof scrolls between bars, with arrow-pointed dog-bars and fringes oftwisted spikes and leaves. The lofty pyramid overthrow rests ona narrow horizontal base with small mask, its bold centre formedof an oval enclosing five arrows saltire between the initials H. H.,of the Hetherington family, supported by large scrolls with .hori-zontal breaks, acanthus, laurel, water-leaves and tendrils, andhandsomely scrolled fihidl. At Foots Cray Place a gate, nowwithout an overthrow, consists of a panel of scroll-e

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