. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 41. GATES TO THE FORECOURT OF WENTWORTH CASTLE, NEAR BARNSLEY,BUILT IN 1708, FROM THE ENGRAVING BY BADESLADE, I73O. 120 English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries how very few have escaped total destruction. The housesengraved by Klip were the stateliest in the land, most underCourt influence, and built in the latest prevailing fashions oftheir day. The later editions of Kip, those of 1716 and 1724,show increasingly stately and lofty screens with pl
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 41. GATES TO THE FORECOURT OF WENTWORTH CASTLE, NEAR BARNSLEY,BUILT IN 1708, FROM THE ENGRAVING BY BADESLADE, I73O. 120 English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries how very few have escaped total destruction. The housesengraved by Klip were the stateliest in the land, most underCourt influence, and built in the latest prevailing fashions oftheir day. The later editions of Kip, those of 1716 and 1724,show increasingly stately and lofty screens with plainer gates,and more concentrated richness in the overthrows. The grandforecourt to Wentworth Castle, built between 1708 and 1715,with its wide and slightly bowed front, presented like that of Ver-sailles a magnificent sweep of railings with lofty gates and wickets. FIG. 42. FORECOURT SCREEN TO POWIS HOUSE, GREAT ORMOND STREET, BUILT B EMBASSY, WHEN THE PIERS AND ! in the French taste. The gates shown in Fig. 41 were constructedof long vertical bars, with the lock-rail low down, under a rich over-throw horizontally treated, with pyramid top comprising the fuUydisplayed arms and supporters of Thomas Wentworth, Earl ofStrafford. The wickets corresponded, their overthrows bearingcrests. The arms were repeated on the lofty stone piers and againon the escutcheons born by the spirited lion and griffin sup-porters which surmounted them. An unusual feature was thepiercing of the piers to receive vertical panels of iron with semi- Forecourt Screens 121 circular tops in the same taste as the gates. Only one exampleof this treatment now exists, at Chester-le-Street (illustrated in^^S- ^9) Another fine screen in the 1724 edition of Kip was atFragnall, Kent, and good gates at Highgate, near Hawkhurst. The screen to the town mansions of the nobility were noles
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