Postern 

 gates. 



Garden 

 doors. 



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GATES AND FENCES FOR GARDEN AND PARK. 



the mansion demanding a quiet treatment of the surrounding details; and the second (111. 



No. 69) would be useful where access to the home park were required for carts, etc., from 



somewhere on the route of the main drive or other rather prominent positions. 



Reference to any of the plans given in this book will show the important part which 



postern and other small gates take in a well-designed garden. 

 As to the character and design of individual gates, every- 

 thing depends on the position and importance of the walks 

 to which they give access, and the style of the residence to 

 which they lead. The steps and gateway just referred 

 to and which are shown in illustration No. 70, 

 occupy a position on the central axial line through the 

 house, and are placed on the terrace which divides the old 

 garden from the new extension, a position which justifies 

 the ornamental treatment adopted. The gateway in the 

 balustraded wall shown in illustration No. 50 connects a 

 large carriage court with the home park, the importance of 

 the residence demanding such an arrangement. In other 

 cases, to mark divisions between the various parts of a 

 garden, quaintly-designed lych-gates may be used, or little 

 gatehouses such as that shown in No. 71, which would 

 serve the purpose of an arbour as well as a gate canopy. 

 In other cases, where simpler treatment would be more in 



harmony with the surroundings, either of the gates shown in Nos. 72 and 73 might be 



used. The first of these was erected at Wraysbury, near Staines, and connects the 



lawns and paddock. It is more elaborate than would usually be required for such a 



position, but was justified by its surroundings. In other cases, the one shown in 



No. 73, and erected at Shrublands, Windermere, would 



be more suitable. The gateway No. 50 with the open 



railing ; the gateway illustrated in No. 61 with the over- 

 head arrangement, and side panels, the one at Skibo 



Castle designed for Andrew Carnegie, Esq., D.C.L. (111. 



No. 74), and the opening and gate with its row of 



clanging bells at Ashton-on-Ribble (No. 68), are all 



modern examples of gates on which smith or carpenter 



has exercised his craft, and all are arranged to mark 



divisions between parts of gardens, while Nos. 75 and 76 



give two antique Spanish wrought-iron gates which have 



been re-erected in an English garden. 



Garden doors made to fit arched openings in fruit 



walls or the fence to the public highway are often 



required, and for their design and arrangement we have 



a large amount of precedent in the old English walled 



gardens. There is a perfectly plain but delightfully 



proportioned one at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, the seat 



of Admiral Lord Walter Kerr, and another rather more 



elaborate, and designed in the classic renaissance style, at 



Woolhampton Hall, Berkshire. Those shown in Nos. 299 and 300, erected in gardens by 



the Author, are all designed in the spirit of the old work. In this class of door more than 



any other it is impossible to use stock designs. Every site needs individual treatment, 



and the most should be made of the individual note. Where the door gives access from 



the highway, a sense of privacy is required, as it would be the entrance for members of 



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