ON DERBYSHIRE PLUMBERY, OR WORKINGS IN LEAD. 77 



There seems good reason to assign the date of this house, (and 

 the lead-work is clearly co-eval,) to the last quarter of the fifteenth 

 century.* The gutter is also well worthy of reproduction, as 

 showing a most effective though simple pattern, easily produced 

 by nicking the edge of the lead, and curling it down in alternate 

 depths. Surely this design might well commend itself to modern 

 builders and architects. 



At Haddon Hall there is a remarkable display of elaborately- 

 treated down-cast leaden pipes, with richly-ornamented cistern- 

 heads, of varying dates and of much diversity. We are inclined 

 to think that there is no other house in England so rich in art- 

 work of this description, t 



The earliest in date of these details at Haddon is the one 

 here engraved. The 

 highly effective fleur- 



de-lis band, as well as pgJKJfeS JSJ^feS^ 

 the circular ornament, 

 have been applied and 

 soldered on after the 

 ordinary moulding has 

 been completed. This 

 cistern - head might 

 easily escape the visi- 

 tor's attention, but it is 



to be seen from the aJ^& 



short wooden gallery \ 



that leads across a very small open court, formed by some altera- 

 tions in the building, to certain of the private apartments at the 

 north-west angle of the upper court. The date seems to be of 

 the first half of the sixteenth century, possibly of the time of Sir 

 Henry Vernon, who died in 1515. 



* See drawings and account of this house by Mr. George Bailey, in the 2nd 

 volume of the Derbyshire Arch. Journal, pp. 29, 30, plate ii. 



,J t ,? e f!ff% New *> °\ „ A "g ust 3°th, 1878, gave a lithographed sheet of 

 t S r le £ d .- work at Hadd °n H^l, but the drawings in the letterpress, 



by Mr. George Bailey, are more accurate. 



