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CHAPTER XVII.— GATES AND GATEWAYS. 



Entrance Stairways — Gates to Forecourts — Carriage Gates — Notes on Eighteenth 

 Century Smiths — Gateways and Vistas — In Walled Gardens — Wooden Gates. 



BOTH before and since Robinson Crusoe "made up the Entrance, which till 

 now I had left open," the treatment of the way into house and garden has 

 been fruitful of varied opportunity. Crusoe was concerned for the safety 

 of his ■ house and gear, and had an eye to those same needs of defence that find such 

 delightful architectural expression in moat and bridge, gatehouse and portcullis. The 

 small house and garden, however, raise, no such military problems, and the 

 possibilities are limited to the treatment of archways in high walls, gates that break 

 the line of low walls and sometimes the provision of steps. In Fig. 276 is shown an 











FIG. 276. — GATE AND MOUNTING BLOCK AT CLEEVE PRIOR. 



