. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. oncentric arches, their decorative effect being enhancedby scrolls; and for the crypt of St. Pauls, where the verticals, Grilles 269 and not the horizontals, are blocked 100 times in each window.Gibbs, Dance, Soane, and later architects used grilles of this kindwhere protection was required. Though decorative grilles had been familiar for centuries to railoff or close choirs and chapels in the interiors of churches, theyhad rarely, if ever, been used for the exter
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. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. oncentric arches, their decorative effect being enhancedby scrolls; and for the crypt of St. Pauls, where the verticals, Grilles 269 and not the horizontals, are blocked 100 times in each window.Gibbs, Dance, Soane, and later architects used grilles of this kindwhere protection was required. Though decorative grilles had been familiar for centuries to railoff or close choirs and chapels in the interiors of churches, theyhad rarely, if ever, been used for the exteriors of buildings inEngland, and we probably owe their introduction to Wren, butonly after Tijou had settled here. The openings beneath the libraryof Trinity CoUege, as already mentioned on p. 36, were closedwith decorative grilles by Partridge, a London smith, the scrolledpanels introduced in them differing from contemporary work.It is curious to find an original sketch for a much richer but lessartistic grille, perhaps for this very site, among the Wren drawingsat All Souls, Oxford, in which the same panels occur associated. FIG. 107. PROTECTIVE GRILLE AT THE MANSION HOUSE. 270 English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries with other work more in the manner of Tijou. The great win-dows to St. Pauls Cathedral are practically grilles, though arrangedto take the glass, with arabesqued borders, forged by differentsmiths at from ^d. to 6d. per lb. Later examples of protectivegrilles rendered more or less decorative may be seen at the MansionHouse (Fig. 107), and the Bank of England, those radiating from alions head on the north side being particularly effective. Windowsin the areas of Bloomsbury and elsewhere sometimes have grillesforged to produce a large quatrefoil diaper, but usually they are ofplain spiked verticals, and horizontals. Tijou includes only one grille in his book of designs, but themany fine examples over doors and elsewhere in St. Pauls Cathe-dral are cert