Category: History - British
“_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...
At Moissac, in the south of France, is a most remarkable work of lead, a tomb, above which is a lead sarcophagus and several figures representing the entombment of Christ, who i...
2. Part 2Sheeting buildings with decorative plates of metal has been one of man’s architectural instincts. M. Chipiez, in his essay on the origins of Greek architecture, considers first:...
4. Part 4For sepulchral use lead is especially fitted; it was customary in the twelfth century to inscribe a tablet or cross and to place it in the coffin on the breast of the dead.
3. Part 3The lead covering of old roofs should be jealously maintained--its loss is irreparable. If repair becomes absolutely necessary for the protection of the building, such lead shou...
6. Part 6None of the old English gardens were complete without a fountain, and no fountain was complete without a figure. Bacon says--“For fountains ... the ornaments of images, gilt or...
1. Part 1“_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...
7. Part 7Lead working as an art for the expression of beauty through material, with this ancestry of nearly two thousand years of beautiful workmanship behind it here in England, has in...