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IRONWORK 



which still survives, the proportion of weak, unmeaning, or ill- 

 adapted design is infinitesimal. Something, no doubt, they 

 owed to France, but they worked largely on their own lines, and 

 established a school of design which is essentially English. 



Tijou worked for Queen Mary at Hampton Court, where he 



FIG. 261. The Martins, Chipping Campden, 1714. 



placed some of the richest screens and gates which the country 

 can boast. A portion of his work is illustrated in Fig. 262. 

 He also executed some splendid ironwork at Chatsworth, 

 Burghley, and St Paul's, London. The balustrade to the king's 

 staircase at Hampton Court (Fig. 264) may also in all probability 

 be assigned to him. He must have had assistants, among whom 

 Huntingdon Shaw, of Nottingham, has been reckoned the chief, 

 and indeed the actual work on the screens at Hampton Court 



