. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. in any case, excessive, the usual price of castings beingzd., and no others are recorded as having been made in had introduced cast balustered standards into one of hisdesigns for railings, published in 1728 (Fig. 47, p. 130), and in1726 used a cast baluster pattern for the existing enclosure ofSt. Martins Church. Another example is in Cambridge, roundthe Senate House, where cast balusters and wrought bars introduction was at first gradu
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. in any case, excessive, the usual price of castings beingzd., and no others are recorded as having been made in had introduced cast balustered standards into one of hisdesigns for railings, published in 1728 (Fig. 47, p. 130), and in1726 used a cast baluster pattern for the existing enclosure ofSt. Martins Church. Another example is in Cambridge, roundthe Senate House, where cast balusters and wrought bars introduction was at first gradual and tentative. Isaac Wareremarks in hkBody of Architecture, 1756, p. 89, that cast ironis very serviceable to the builder and a vast expense is saved inmany cases by using it; in rails and balusters it makes a rich andmassy appearance when it has cost very little, and when wroughtiron much less substantial would cost a vast sum. But, on theother hand, there is a neatness and finished look in a wrought ironthat will never be seen in cast, and it bears accident vastly better. * One is now in the Hastings Museum. Railings 243. Jiiiiiimiiiii Sites were taken up in the best squares by speculative builders, and agood deal of cast iron is seen to have been used, possibly for it was often used from choice, and under the Regency, whenthe severely classic taste introduced by Napoleon became a fashionin England, wroughtiron was almost ex-cluded for decorativepurposes. Some of the mostdecorative of theLondon area railswere designed byRobert Adam. Thehouse on the east sideof St. James Square,built for Sir W. in 1773 byhim, still preserves itsiandsome railing<Fig. 87). The ver-ticals finish in mace-heads, and there arefleur-de-lis and honey-suckle borders. Thepilaster is a lyre withfan and honeysuckleenrichments. In thefinished drawing ofthe elevation in theSoane Museum the four pilasters are surmounted by rich lampsjapparently removed with the fan-light grille whe
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