Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 250
f English smithery was made by Thomasde Leghtone in the year 1294. It is a clever adaptation ofhinge-work to the design of a grille. Mr. Gardner sup-poses Leghtone to be connected with Leighton Buzzard, METAL WORK. 231 as the same kind of iron work as the Eleanor grille occursin the hinges of the… … ::-j^-^ Fig. 200.—Press Door in the Church of St. Jacques, at Liege. (G.) Tunstall, Windsor, Lichfield, and Merton College, Oxford, are examples of the same kind of work, which no doubt was executed by Thomas de Leghtone and his assistants. \fter the end of the thirteenth century examples are of…
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