342 THE WROUGHT IRONWORK OF TIJOU 



has been claimed as his ; but recent investigations show con- 

 clusively that the claim cannot be sustained. 1 Another of 

 Tijou's assistants was Robert Bakewell, who settled in Derby 

 and was widely employed in the Midlands. To him, perhaps, 

 we owe the gates at Stoneleigh Abbey, illustrated in Fig. 263, 

 although tradition says that these were brought here from 

 Watergate, a dismantled mansion beyond Southam. 2 The 

 ironwork in and round London may be largely attributed to 



FIG. 264. Balustrade to the King's Staircase, Hampton Court. 



Thomas Robinson and his successors, and it would appear that 

 skilful smiths settled in different centres in England, round 

 which they influenced the work over a wide area. Bristol 

 was the home of such a man, William Edney by name, and 

 that he was an accomplished craftsman is proved by the 

 magnificent gates at St Mary Redcliffe (Fig. 265), which date 

 from 1710. 



1 See two articles on Huntingdon Shaw by R. Garraway Rice, F.S.A., 

 in the Archaeological Journal^ June 1895, and the Home Counties Magazine, 

 January 1902, vol. iv., No. 13. 



2 See "English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries," by 

 J. Starkie Gardner. (Batsford.) 



