Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English (1893)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London, Macmillan · leaf 157
XX.] OF PIPES AND PIPE HEADS 1 + 5 lead cylinders with pierced ends project and carry the heads. Sometimes the heads are very long, extending five or six feet like a length of gutter ; it was a favourite method to decorate them with salient projections at intervals, like the cut-waters of a bridge,… … The projections make convenient birds’ nests. The pipe is sometimes central to these long heads but often at the end. Entirely the reverse of these, other heads are tall in proportion, like the examples at Shrewsbury and Ludlow or the little fiddle pattern design given here from the (Grammar School…
Leadwork
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