CHAPTER 7 - Notes
[147]. See Sheppard, R., Cast Iron in Building, London, 1945, and Gloag, J. and Bridgwater, D., A History of Cast Iron in Building, London, 1948. These accounts require considerable revision in the light of later research by T. C. Bannister and by A. W. Skempton. See Note [[151]], infra, and for further illustrations, ‘The Iron Pioneers’, Architectural Review, CXXX (1961), 14-19, and Richards, J. M., The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings, London, 1958.
[148]. Problems of fire-resistance were already under discussion in England in the forties. The London Fire Department even refused to enter burning buildings with internal skeletons of iron because of the danger of their collapse; while the effectiveness of fireproofing iron columns with masonry sheathing was already being tested in 1846. I owe this information, as well as that on many other significant points in this chapter, to Turpin C. Bannister.
[149]. See Harris, J., ‘Cast Iron Columns 1706’, Architectural Review, CXXX (1961), 60-1.
[150]. See Raistrick, A., Dynasty of Ironfounders, London, [1953].
[151]. See Giedion, S., Bauen in Frankreich: Eisen, Eisenbeton, Leipzig, 1928, an account which its own author and others have considerably emended since.
[152]. This was replaced a quarter of a century later when a new stair-hall was built by Percier & Fontaine.
[153]. See Bannister, T. C., ‘The First Iron-Framed Buildings’, Architectural Review, CVII (1950), 231-46; Skempton, A. W., and Johnson, H. R., ‘The First Iron Frames’, Architectural Review, CXXXI (1962), 175-86. In 1803-4 came two more iron-framed mills, the North Mill at Belper and one at Leeds.
[154]. See Fairbairn, W., On the Application of Cast and Wrought Iron to Building Purposes, London, 1854.