. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. URNT AND REBUILT IN I7I2, WHILE IN THE OCCUPATION OF THE FRENCH WERE PROBABLY ALTERED. Engraved for Stomas Survey. the cost, though the building was insured. The screen, however,is not so distinctly in the French taste as that to Wentworth,but the piers are as lofty and surmounted by similar supportersholding escutcheons. The striking feature is the richness ofthe long length of railing on either side, divided into panels byopen work pilasters, both panels and pil
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. URNT AND REBUILT IN I7I2, WHILE IN THE OCCUPATION OF THE FRENCH WERE PROBABLY ALTERED. Engraved for Stomas Survey. the cost, though the building was insured. The screen, however,is not so distinctly in the French taste as that to Wentworth,but the piers are as lofty and surmounted by similar supportersholding escutcheons. The striking feature is the richness ofthe long length of railing on either side, divided into panels byopen work pilasters, both panels and pilasters surmounted by highpyramids of scrolls finishing in fleur-de-lis (Fig. 42). Noticeablefeatures are the unusually large and handsome scroll-work buttresseson either side of the gate-piers. The fleur-de-lis of the railings and 122 English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries. o o <O Forecourt Screens 123 the fixed panels of vertical spear-headed bars on either side of thegates are convincing evidence that this closure was either erected oraltered for the new building hy Louis A low balustrade of richdesign CFig. 43) was seen immediately in front of the house and con-tinuing up the steps to the front entrance, like that still existing atChesterfield House. Powis House was taken down in i yyj, when thesite was built over and the ironwork disappeared. Monmouth Housein Soho Square was built for the unfortunate Duke in 1683, by a , a joiner, who acted as architect; and also for a brief time
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