. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 97. TOWN HALL, WALLINGFORD. Balconies 257 repeats the twisted verticals and extra standards with ball finials andthree scrolled panels in front, more or less restored. Those atGuildford, dating from 1683, are finer. In the large balcony to theTown Hall the vertical bars are alternately plain and twisted,and the standards twisted and surmounted by faceted balls, witha central panel, the scrolls terminating in thistles, repeating fourways with simpler and corre
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 97. TOWN HALL, WALLINGFORD. Balconies 257 repeats the twisted verticals and extra standards with ball finials andthree scrolled panels in front, more or less restored. Those atGuildford, dating from 1683, are finer. In the large balcony to theTown Hall the vertical bars are alternately plain and twisted,and the standards twisted and surmounted by faceted balls, witha central panel, the scrolls terminating in thistles, repeating fourways with simpler and corresponding panels on each side. A. FIG. 98. BALCONY AT GUILDFORD, DATE ABOUT 1683. smaller balcony in the same street (Fig. 98) has the central panel ofquainter design with two terminal thistles, four scrolls ending inleaves and spiral twists; and perhaps the modern addition of cressetsin place of balls at the angles. The principal front of CarolinePark, Granton, , has a quaint looking balcony over the porch,but not of much earlier date than 1696, with the initials of GeorgeMackenzie, Lord Tarbat, and his wife in monogram under aviscounts coronet, forming a central panel : the two crests and s 258 English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries a rose and thistle forming centres to the four scrolled panels atthe sides. The use of balconies spread to Spain and Germany during theRenaissance, but in France they do not seem to have been thefashion until the time of Louis XIII. Under Louis XIV theybecame more richly worked—in fact, of the most sumptuous andcostly description. The introduction into England of such
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