. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIGS. 8 3-86. COMMON FORMS OF CAST-IRON VASES ON RAILINGS. streets and squares, immense quantities of area railings were were massive and protective, of vertical bars, spaced some 5to 6 inches apart, spiked or barbed, and held together by a singlewide horizontal above, and each let separately into the stone kerbat the base. Perhaps being more easy to climb, decorative panelswere usually avoided, and standards took their place. Few depar-tures were mad
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIGS. 8 3-86. COMMON FORMS OF CAST-IRON VASES ON RAILINGS. streets and squares, immense quantities of area railings were were massive and protective, of vertical bars, spaced some 5to 6 inches apart, spiked or barbed, and held together by a singlewide horizontal above, and each let separately into the stone kerbat the base. Perhaps being more easy to climb, decorative panelswere usually avoided, and standards took their place. Few depar-tures were made, and the different dates are partially denoted bythe forms of the cast-iron vase-shaped finials to the standards ;but the old flask-shape (Fig. 83), the pine-cone (Fig. 84), and avase wide and gadrooned above (Fig. 85), all perhaps originallytaken from designs by Wren for the towers and parapets of hischurches, continued in favour side by side with the more classicforms introduced later by the Adams (Fig. 86), which werenumerous but not very varied. Railings 241 The central areas of the London squares were at first left aso
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