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FIG. 242. Gate-Piers at Coleshill, Berkshire. 



Hampton Court is the lordly pier shown in Fig. 244. At St 

 John's College, Cambridge, the piers shown in Fig. 243 form 

 part of the bridge built between 1696 and 1712. They per- 

 petuate to some extent the feeling of Tudor work in the rose, 

 the portcullis, and the heraldic animals on their summits. All 

 the large houses of the early eighteenth century, and many of 



