. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. f gilt copper,8 feet 6 inches long, on a short rodproceeding from a ball 2 feet 3 inchesin diameter in the old English man-ner. Other dragons formerly overthe four turrets of the Guildhall, the old Cloth Hall at Newburyand the Guildhall at Faversham, may recall some almost for-gotten trading connexion with the Low Countries. The dragonalso surmounted old Bethlehem Hospital, and still does that atKirkleatham. Flitcroft fixed one over the ordinary guidon vaneat Went
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. f gilt copper,8 feet 6 inches long, on a short rodproceeding from a ball 2 feet 3 inchesin diameter in the old English man-ner. Other dragons formerly overthe four turrets of the Guildhall, the old Cloth Hall at Newburyand the Guildhall at Faversham, may recall some almost for-gotten trading connexion with the Low Countries. The dragonalso surmounted old Bethlehem Hospital, and still does that atKirkleatham. Flitcroft fixed one over the ordinary guidon vaneat Wentworth. However this may be, the presence of theGresham Grasshopper in large quantities and as a vane on thefirst Royal Exchange is clearly attributable to the Dutch in-fluence. The shape satisfactorily lends itself to the purpose,like the dragon, and the first building, finished in 1570, wasdesigned by^ a Flemish architect, and built on the lines of theAntwerp Burse. The two engravings by Rogenburg, pro-duced before the building was well begun, show a huge girellaor grasshopper, resting on a cross and ball, crowning the lofty. FIG. 157. THE VANE AT BOWCHURCH. FROM AN ENGRAV-ING BY T. CHRISTOPHER. Weathercocks and Vanes 313 bell-tower, and another capping the high Corinthian columnon the Cornhill side. Small grasshoppers beset the dormers ofthe windows and gables. The second Exchange, built after theFire, had high scrolled vanes to the four turrets, half sur-mounted by flags and royal crowns, the rest by maintain their places on the present Victorian building,the larger of which measures 6 feet 4 inches in length on a rod16 feet high. The outlines of most kinds of fish are suitable to the purposesof a vane, as evidenced by those of the Natural History Museum,and no form could be more appropriate for seaport townswhich depend on their fisheries, yet they are conspicuouslyabsent. If we may judge from Thorotons Nottingham, i6jj,such vanes were fairly popular in the
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