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 443
parapets seem survivals of ancient Englishtradition, for our mediaeval castles, unlike the high pitched roofs ofFrance and Germany, were fiat roofed, providing fighting plat-forms with crenelations for parapets. Some of our stateliestElizabethan houses, as Castle Ashby, Burleigh, and Audley… … Balustrades 253 iron rails might be put round the roofs of houses, permission to doso being first obtained, and old views show some in London streetsof plain vertical bars, and to several of the houses on old LondonBridge, which enjoyed commanding views. The old drawing (Plate lxxvi) of Crowley…
Ironwork · Decoration and ornament, English · Architecture
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