English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft (1911)
Gardner, John Starkie, 1844-1930 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 237
h and XVIIIth Centuries Forecourt Screens.We have now seen that the grandest gates produced in Englandwere once the central features of the screens to forecourts in front ofthe house. They recall the magnificence of those to the outer courtof Versailles, and to many great chateaux of the French… … FIG. 38. THE GOLDEN GATES, ELVASTON. rich overthrow, lofty square or rectangular piers, plain wickets,and a long range of very tall halberd-like railings with tassels. Itwas erected by the 4th Earl of Harrington, and is said, probablyerroneously, to have been brought from the Chateau of Madrid,near…
Ironwork · Decoration and ornament, English · Architecture
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