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LEADWORK


  "_That which gives to the leadwork of the Middle Ages a particular
  charm is that the means they employed and the forms they adopted
  are exactly appropriate to the material. Like Carpentry or Cabinet
  work, Plumbing was an art apart which borrowed neither from stone
  nor wood in its design. Mediaeval lead was wrought like colossal
  goldsmith's work._"--VIOLLET-LE-DUC.




  LEADWORK
  OLD AND ORNAMENTAL
  AND FOR THE MOST PART
  ENGLISH. BY W. R. LETHABY
  WITH ILLVSTRATIONS

  [Illustration]

  1893
  Macmillan & Co., London & New York.


RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED

LONDON AND BUNGAY.




CONTENTS


     SECT.                                               PAGE

        I. OF MATERIAL AND CRAFTSMANSHIP                    1

       II. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH                             5

      III. OF LEAD COVERINGS TO BUILDINGS                  17

       IV. OF LEADED SPIRES AND TURRETS                    20

        V. OF DOMES                                        33

       VI. OF ROOFS                                        36

      VII. OF LEAD COFFINS                                 40

     VIII. OF FONTS                                        51

       IX. OF INSCRIPTIONS, ETC.                           65

        X. OF THE DECORATION OF LEAD                       72

       XI. OF LEAD ORNAMENTATION OF OTHER MATERIALS        80

      XII. OF DECORATIVE OBJECTS                           84

     XIII. OF LEAD GLAZING                                 87

      XIV. OF LEAD STATUES                                 90

       XV. OF LEAD FOUNTAINS                              112

      XVI. OF VASES AND GATE PIERS                        114

     XVII. OF FINIALS AND CRESTINGS                       124

    XVIII. OF CISTERNS, ETC.                              131

      XIX. OF GUTTERS                                     137

       XX. OF PIPES AND PIPE HEADS                        139




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


       FIG.                                              PAGE

         1. EGYPTIAN INSCRIBED TABLET                       7

         2. GREEK QUIVER                                    8

         3. BUILDER'S PLUMMET                               9

      4, 5. GREEK WEIGHTS                                  10

      6, 7. GREEK WEIGHTS                                  11

      8, 9. CISTS FROM THE KIRCHERIAN MUSEUM               12

        10. ROMAN JEWELLED CUP                             14

        11. SPIRE, BARNSTAPLE                              26

        12. ANOTHER SPIRE                                  27

        13. TURRET, BARNARD'S INN HALL                     29

        14. CALAIS BELFRY                                  32

        15. ORNAMENTS FROM COFFINS, CONSTANTINOPLE         41

    16, 17. CISTS, BRITISH MUSEUM                          42

    18, 19. ROMAN COFFINS, BRITISH MUSEUM                  44

        20. ROMAN COFFIN, BRITISH MUSEUM                   45

        21. THIRTEENTH CENTURY COFFIN, TEMPLE CHURCH       46

    22, 23. THIRTEENTH CENTURY COFFINS, TEMPLE CHURCH      47

        24. COFFIN, WINCHESTER                             48

        25. AT MOISSAC                                     49

        26. VESSEL, LEWES MUSEUM                           52

        27. FONT, BROOKLAND, KENT                          54

        28. FONT, BROOKLAND                                55

        29. FONT, EDBURTON, SUSSEX                         57

        30. FONT, WALTON, SURREY                           59

        31. FONT, PARHAM, SUSSEX                           61

        32. HEART BOX OF KING RICHARD                      67

        33. INSCRIBED CROSS                                68

        34. ARMS FROM BOURGES                              70

        35. INCISED DECORATION, BOURGES                    75

        36. PAINTED DECORATION, BOURGES                    76

        37. FLASHINGS, BOURGES                             77

        38. A VALANCE                                      78

    39, 40. LEAD GLAZING                                   88

        41. VENTILATING QUARRY                             89

        42. STATUE OF MERCURY                              98

        43. SUN-DIAL, TEMPLE GARDENS                      100

        44. CYMBAL PLAYER                                 106

        45. TERMINAL AT CASTLE HILL                       107

        46. TIME, TEMPLE DINSLEY                          108

        47. VASE, HAMPTON COURT                           115

        48. FROM VASE, HAMPTON COURT                      116

        49. VASE, CASTLE HILL                             117

        50. ALBERT GATE                                   118

        51. ALBERT GATE                                   119

        52. VASE, KNOLE                                   120

        53. CUPID, TEMPLE DINSLEY                         121

        54. SPHINX, SYON HOUSE                            122

        55. SYON HOUSE                                    123

        56. FINIAL AT LILLE                               126

        57. FINIAL AT ANGERS                              126

        58. ANGERS                                        128

        59. FINIALS, BOURGES                              129

        60. FROM NEWCASTLE                                130

        61. POUNDISFORD PARK, TAUNTON                     132

        62. CISTERN, EXETER                               133

        63. CISTERN, LONDON                               134

        64. CISTERN, S. KENSINGTON MUSEUM                 135

        65. GUTTER, LINCOLN CATHEDRAL                     137

        66. GUTTER, TAUNTON                               138

        67. BRAMHALL, CHESHIRE                            140

    68, 69. PIPE HEADS, HADDON HALL                       141

        70. PIPE HEAD, HADDON                             142

        71. BODLE