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 534
d barbed like arrows,but sometimes twisted into loops andbent downward ; or two bars outliningthe flag are continued round the spindleand bent and welded together into thepoint. The pointer may also be sup-ported from below by. a scroll, or setbetween two scrolls. Our illustrationof the vane to… … FIG. 162.TURRET,BUCKS. VANE ON BELLHEDSOR CHURCH,T. GARRATT, del. Occasionally it finishes in a small dragons, serpents, or birds head. 320 English Ironwork oftheXVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries A few eighteenth century vanes were frankly heraldic, like thatto the old Swedes Church in Ratclifl Highway,…
Ironwork · Decoration and ornament, English · Architecture
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