. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 94. DESIGN FOR AN ADAM BALUSTRADE IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. and Albert Museum (Fig. 94) presents one of Greek honeysucklesbetween fret borders, with pilasters to match bearing lamps, thewhole terminating against a carved stone sphinx and pedestal. Flat roofs with parapets seem survivals of ancient Englishtradition, for our mediaeval castles, unlike the high pitched roofs ofFrance and Germany, were fiat roofed, providing fighting plat-forms with crene

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. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 94. DESIGN FOR AN ADAM BALUSTRADE IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. and Albert Museum (Fig. 94) presents one of Greek honeysucklesbetween fret borders, with pilasters to match bearing lamps, thewhole terminating against a carved stone sphinx and pedestal. Flat roofs with parapets seem survivals of ancient Englishtradition, for our mediaeval castles, unlike the high pitched roofs ofFrance and Germany, were fiat roofed, providing fighting plat-forms with crenelations for parapets. Some of our stateliestElizabethan houses, as Castle Ashby, Burleigh, and Audley End,have stone parapets carved most effectively into mottoes, and laterthey have stone balustrades of Italian design, as at Whitehall andChatsworth. .It was enacted after the Great Fire of London that > X

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