. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. 127. ARCHED LAMP SUPPORTOVER GATEWAY. Plate PORCH AND LAMP PEDESTAL, CHESTERFIELD HOUSE. Lamp-Holders 285 of St. Georges, Hanover Square. In 1752 there were high stoneobelisks and lamps to the railings in front of the Mansion House,when Ware complained that the heavy ironwork crowds on thevery flights of steps. Stone obelisks formerly .carrying handsomelamps are used effectively in the low railings of the Strand frontof Somerset House (Fig. 93, page 251
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. 127. ARCHED LAMP SUPPORTOVER GATEWAY. Plate PORCH AND LAMP PEDESTAL, CHESTERFIELD HOUSE. Lamp-Holders 285 of St. Georges, Hanover Square. In 1752 there were high stoneobelisks and lamps to the railings in front of the Mansion House,when Ware complained that the heavy ironwork crowds on thevery flights of steps. Stone obelisks formerly .carrying handsomelamps are used effectively in the low railings of the Strand frontof Somerset House (Fig. 93, page 251). Iron posts with lamps bracketed from them were formerlyset up at street corners, and higher and more commandingposts were erected at important turnpikes and much in the approaches to London. A careful drawingby Rowlandson represents one at Hyde Park Corner, lofty andwith three lamps, and a later aquatint by Ackerman shows thesame lamp railed round, with four supplementary lamps at alower level bracketed from wood posts. On the conclusionof the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 a dozen very high posts,each with ten or more brackets holding lamps were set u
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