Fig. 266.—Gateway formerly at Quenby Hall, Leicestershire.
Museum, Leicester.
Examples without number could be produced of English ironwork of this period, but space forbids any but a few specimens being cited. There was a splendid gateway at Quenby Hall, Leicestershire, with elaborate iron piers, now in front of the museum at Leicester (Fig. [266]).[85] The four examples shown in Figs. [268–271] are of far simpler design, but they are worth careful study, and are typical of the ordinary work of the time. In the gate from Acton the solid work is aptly introduced and gives it richness and importance; the others exhibit a judicious combination of simplicity and richness which is quite admirable. Indeed the ironwork of the early part of the eighteenth century has never been bettered either in design or execution.
Fig. 267.—Lead Cistern in the possession of Mr L. A. Shuffrey.
Fig. 268.—Gate at Elm Hall, Snaresbrook.
A. H. Ough, del.
Fig. 269.—Gate at Acton, now demolished.