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the small ones, had noteworthy gates and gate-piers. There are 

 hundreds of examples up and down the country, and that at 

 Burley-on-the-Hill, near Oakham (Fig. 245), is typical of the 

 larger kind. This treatment, with lofty stone piers and iron 

 gates of more or less elaborate design, is more frequent than that 

 adopted at Ince Blundell Hall, in Lancashire, where an archway 

 forms the main entrance, and is flanked on each side by a 

 length of wall containing gates for foot traffic (Fig. 246). Manx- 

 smaller examples might be cited, but their general effect can 



FlG. 248. Gate-Piers at Rundhurst, Sussex. 



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be gathered from the three illustrations in Figs. 247, 249, and 

 250, one of which is at a house at Castor, in Northamptonshire, 

 another at a little house in Barrow Gurney, Somersetshire, 

 and the third at one of the delightful houses in the Close 

 at Salisbury. They are all quite unpretentious, but they 

 impart a pleasant amount of interest and a certain degree of 

 dignity to the houses which they serve. Another simple 

 example is taken from a derelict house at Rundhurst, in 

 Sussex (Fig. 248), and at Uffington, in Lincolnshire, is the 

 more important example in Fig. 251, one of a pair of stone 



