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of every one to produce an elaborate design, it is 

 certain that the entrance loses immensely in char- 

 acter if the architectural idea is eliminated. If 

 the gates are linked with a gatekeeper's lodge or 

 other buildings, every opportunity is afforded for 

 pleasant grouping and a good effect. A simple 

 example of a lodge and oak gates is that at 

 Westerham (fig. 13), but here the lodge has been 

 treated as an isolated cottage. Wherever the build- 

 ing can be definitely joined to a brick or stone 

 archway or to piers, a variety of delightful archi- 

 tectural studies are possible in every phase of 

 the Renaissance from Jacobean to Georgian. To 

 gain symmetry the lodge can be repeated on the 

 opposite side thus providing a second cottage, 

 which is often required ; and if the whole group is 

 built of a roughly worked stone or hand-made brick, 

 an effective composition is made easy. Above all 

 things it is important to avoid anything tame and 

 commonplace, without character or diversity of 

 outline. Mere originality and frivolous detail 

 should, of course, be shunned, for they also defeat the 

 essential qualities which are needful in the entrance. 

 Sturdiness and dignity, a composition purposeful 



