. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. the steps in the courtyard of Kimbolton Castle com-prise landing panels with coronet and monogram, and other panelsand balusters of rich work. There appears to be a somewhatsimilar but less rich example at Ledstone Hall, York, The doublesteps and landing at High Head Castle, Carlisle (Plate lxxx) havelyre balusters, and the landing panel is of four repeats of a scrolldiverging from a circle. The handsome steps to Wentworth Wood-house (Plate Lxxxi), ahd those at Ca
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. the steps in the courtyard of Kimbolton Castle com-prise landing panels with coronet and monogram, and other panelsand balusters of rich work. There appears to be a somewhatsimilar but less rich example at Ledstone Hall, York, The doublesteps and landing at High Head Castle, Carlisle (Plate lxxx) havelyre balusters, and the landing panel is of four repeats of a scrolldiverging from a circle. The handsome steps to Wentworth Wood-house (Plate Lxxxi), ahd those at Carshalton, have balusters of lyredesign. Many grand flights of stairs have somewhat- plain balus-trades, as afStoke Edith, but as a rule the balustrades to the terracesand wide flights of steps of country mansions remained handsomeand almost entirely of wrought work till the beginning of the reign ofGeorge HI. • A fine example of geometric design of the latter reignis at Easton Neston, near Towcester. The balustrade to the spacious terrace and steps to the garden,owned by Lord Thurloe in 1704-5, remained till recently in the. Grilles 267 rear of 44, Great Ormond Street. The design is of bent over barsalternating with, verticals, all with diverging scrolls (Fig. 106), withpanels and newels of scrolled vertical bars, with flask-shaped finialsover the standards. The usual flights of steps to the entrances of smaller mansionsrarely present balustrades calling for notice, though examplesare very numerous. That to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum atClapton, illustrated in Belchers Later Renaissance is typical,with alternate lyre balusters. The steps to the Manor Houseat Wandsworth had a balustrade of scrolled Ss, and others areat Great Marlow Place, Bucks, and Kirklees in Yorkshire. Ahandsome example of rich lyre panels and plain verticals main-tains its position at 24, Kensington Gore ; but the one sketchedand published in 1876 by Norton to 10, Upper Manor Street,Chelsea, has disappeared.
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