. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. outer of husks and scrolls, each withflanking buttresses, over a horizontal base of scroll-work. Itscentral features are a drapery with symbols of the Trinity and ashield of the College arms within the acanthus arch, and a smallmask and smaller drapery above, which probably supported theBromley crest. The buttresses to the inner and outer arches areflat-topped with scroll supports and acanthus, and plain vasefinials, large branches of laurel with tendrils filling
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. outer of husks and scrolls, each withflanking buttresses, over a horizontal base of scroll-work. Itscentral features are a drapery with symbols of the Trinity and ashield of the College arms within the acanthus arch, and a smallmask and smaller drapery above, which probably supported theBromley crest. The buttresses to the inner and outer arches areflat-topped with scroll supports and acanthus, and plain vasefinials, large branches of laurel with tendrils filling the spacesbetween. The bars. are moulded in section and the scrolls finishin massive ends boldly produced in spirals for two or three incheson both sides. The piers are of H section formed of six strong. vertical bars with exceptionally richly worked lyre filling betweenthem ; the caps are low, and deeply coved, of acanthus leaves sur-mounted by pyramids, of scrolls and converging bars with the out-lines of truncated cones. The wickets and their slightly lower ,piers match the gates, with buttress overthrows of scrolls and X. DOIS Q iSX h So OS aw> s ii d •§ 9. Oh O X m o> M ao HtnH > X
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