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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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ges, the centres marked by a bead.The overthrow is of two dolphin scrolls with long water-leaves anda high finial like the spike of an aloe. Probably a gate sketched by Norton on the Great NorthRoad at Highgate,with scrolled lock-rail having a circle for centre,may be by the same hand. The pilaster panels are of verticalbars ending above in a pear-shaped pyramid of scrolls. Theoverthrow is a pyramid of two recurved scrolls supporting anoval, on a scrolled horizontal base with flask-shaped finial. An-other gate at Hampstead has the pilaster filling in the outline of ava^se, with scrolls and a centre bar which opens into a vesica, whilethe gatetop rises in an ellipse under a scrolled pyramid. Two gates with semicircular heads have been sketched byNorton and also published by Ebbetts. That at Bolton HouseFulham Road, the remains of part of the mansion of Lord Tre-gunter, and said to have been the Royal Military Academy, sinceat Woolwich, had the pilasters finished in low concave tops and
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GATF, IX KKNSINGTON GORE. 172 English Ironwork of the X Vllth and XVIIIth Centuries is illustrated (Plate liii) from Baker Street, Enfield, dating fromabout 1760. The later eighteenth century gates are usually of plain hori-zontal and vertical bars, spiked, and required the support ofstretchers or bars crossing the gate diagonally, through which theverticals passed. These usually curve either upward or downwardcompleting a semicircle when the gates are closed; but they alsofrequently cross diagonally in a direct line. There are interestinggates and railings to the Jermyn Street front of St. James Church,of verticals with moulded spikes and lozenges between the duplicatedhorizontals. The massive octagonal piers enclose a high rectangularpanel of alternately larger and smaller intersecting diagonals. The. garden entrance to Lansdowne House, perhaps designedby Robert Adam soon after 1765 (Plate liv) for Lord Shelburne,afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne, is of spear-headed verticals withthre

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