Ironwork .. . imself, although he survived till 1443. Allthese tombs at Canterbury have identical railings, by thesame smith, of plain vertical bars set diagonally under abattlemented cornice bearing stamped lions heads andfleurs-de-lis, and six battlemented standards with buttresssupports; those to the Black Prince having prickets, appa-rently a mark of extra dignity. They are without spikes,an inconvenience realised as early as in 1443 when a Germanthief took refuge inside one of them from his pursuers untilforcibly extracted by the citizens. These railings may allhave been contributed by th
Ironwork .. . imself, although he survived till 1443. Allthese tombs at Canterbury have identical railings, by thesame smith, of plain vertical bars set diagonally under abattlemented cornice bearing stamped lions heads andfleurs-de-lis, and six battlemented standards with buttresssupports; those to the Black Prince having prickets, appa-rently a mark of extra dignity. They are without spikes,an inconvenience realised as early as in 1443 when a Germanthief took refuge inside one of them from his pursuers untilforcibly extracted by the citizens. These railings may allhave been contributed by the Archbishop, and their formseems to have been prevalent from at least 1367 to 1440. Notbeing considered of decorative value, the removal of such 28 IRONWORK. railings from churches has in later times been almost univer-sal. Such severely plain railings at last gave place to richertreatments. The railing to the Fitz-Alan tomb at Arundel,1415, is still ot plain vertical bars, but set diagonally below \i -A ;v *. o _. Fig. 2.—Railing to Fitz-Alan tomb, Arundel Castle. 1415. MEDIAEVAL IRONWORK. 29 a finely moulded and battlemented cornice, from which thespikes have recently been removed. The decoration is con-centrated in the ten moulded and massively buttressedstandards, on moulded bases, which rise sixteen inches abovethe cornice, and finish in moulded and battlemented capsbearing prickets. On the outer faces of these standardsare carved narrow crocketed arches springing from grotesqueheads (Fig. 2). Another departure is seen in the rail toArchbishop Chicheleys monument, 1440, in CanterburyCathedral, in which the spikes, rising above a mouldedcornice, are forged into stellate heads like snow crystals,alternating with smaller trefoil spikes ; the standards beingmassive and lofty with octagonal moulded caps and departures probably influenced the design of therails to both Sir Thomas Hungerfords monument inthe chapel at Farleigh, Somerset, and that to BishopBeckingt
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