. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. Church, fivemiles north-east of Reading(Fig. 149), is pierced with theroyal crown and underthe date 1639, with the stempartly twisted and scrolled,and surmounted by an orband cross. A vane taken downand preserved from StreetChurch, pierced underdate 1636^ is of gilt copper,VANE illustrating the rather rudeconstruction of the then pre- HALL, DATE ABOUT , j l n l jgjg valent type and the tleur-de- lis cut out separately andriveted on. More or less contempo
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. Church, fivemiles north-east of Reading(Fig. 149), is pierced with theroyal crown and underthe date 1639, with the stempartly twisted and scrolled,and surmounted by an orband cross. A vane taken downand preserved from StreetChurch, pierced underdate 1636^ is of gilt copper,VANE illustrating the rather rudeconstruction of the then pre- HALL, DATE ABOUT , j l n l jgjg valent type and the tleur-de- lis cut out separately andriveted on. More or less contemporary with these are guidons,swallow-tailed and waved. The well known. Blickling example ispierced with the Hobart Star of eight points, with the stem likethat at Cowdray, and dating from about 1628. Two sketched atBourton-on-the-Water have fleur-de-lis in addition, but maypossibly no longer exist. So far the vanes noticed have been destitute- of pointers,and not until these appear can we be certain that vaneswere intended to point to the direction of the wind, and notmerely to flaunt the exalted status of their owners. It may. FIG. 148 AT BARLBOROUGH FIG. 149. VANE ONRUSCOMB CHURCH,NEAR READING. Weathercocks and Vanes 307 be doubted whether pointers came into use before the reign ofCharles I. Old forms appear with this addition, as at Hatfieldand Cobham, but have probably been reconstructed, and not byantiquaries. The important and probably original vane overLambeth Palace can hardly be later indate than about 1663, when the roof and ?lantern were completed by ArchbishopJuxons executors. The guidon, swallow-tailed with waved points and six fleur-de-lis, is pierced with the arms of the Seeof Canterbury impaled with those of Juxonand prolonged into the broad pointer,which terminates in a small bulb and broad
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