. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. ve, would be almost typical, but for thecurious strap with trefoil ends intended forbuckles. Even St. Pauls Cathedral was tohave been surmounted by one of the typicalvanes according to Wrens first design. The obviously simple barbed and feathered arrow is rarer than might be anticipated ; St. Helens Bishopsgate and St. Botolphs Aldgate being among the few seen in the City. There was one on Westminster Abbey, and several on secular buildings in London at the close
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. ve, would be almost typical, but for thecurious strap with trefoil ends intended forbuckles. Even St. Pauls Cathedral was tohave been surmounted by one of the typicalvanes according to Wrens first design. The obviously simple barbed and feathered arrow is rarer than might be anticipated ; St. Helens Bishopsgate and St. Botolphs Aldgate being among the few seen in the City. There was one on Westminster Abbey, and several on secular buildings in London at the close of the eighteenth century. They should appropriately surmount churches dedicated to St. Edmund the Martyr. Wren occasionally, probably at the wish of incumbent orchurchwarden, fashioned vanes in the likeness of symbols of theSaints to whom the churches were dedicated, but they wererarely artistically successful. An example is seen in the gridironof St. Lawrence Jewry, where the handle forms the large key placed on end over St. Peters Cornhill, the bitforming the flag, probably reproduces a form existing before the. FIG. 155. VANE ONTHE GREENWICHHOSPITAL DOME. Weathercocks and Vanes 311 Fire, as the picture of Sir Henry Dunton in the National PortraitGallery, painted about 1596, shows the central spire of St. PetersFaringdon, where he was buried, with a large key similarly placedfor vane, and the four lesser spires with identical vanes on a lesserscale. The large A over St. Annes near the Post Office detractsfrom a vane in which the flag is continued and cut into the sem-blance of the head of a dove, but its date is uncertain, as no suchvane is represented to this church by Maitland. Happier are theemblems pierced in the flag itself, like the crossed swords of , and the anchor of St. Clements Danes on a shapedflag. Quite different are vanes by Wren worked entirely ofbar iron. Kensington Palace was provided with vanes, possibly atthe Queens suggestion, form
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