GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



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or out alone, shall be set out and garnished 

 with two chevrons, set upon one maine timber 

 and no more, and foure 

 or five battlements." At 

 Coley Hall, near Halifax, 

 there is a garden gateway 

 of stone not unlike Mark- 

 ham's description. It is 

 dated 1 649, and there are 

 good seventeenth-century 

 examples at Orwalle, in 

 North Hants, and Stibb- 

 ington Hall, in Hunting- 

 donshire. The stepped battlement form was 

 commonly used for brick and stone gateways ; 

 there is a curious seventeenth-century example 



Fig. 39. 



Fig. 40. 



on the terrace at Risley. The gateway stands 

 at the head of a flight ot steps leading to the 

 terrace. In the centre is a square-headed door 



