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 467
yredesign. 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… … 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…
Ironwork · Decoration and ornament, English · Architecture
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