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The gate will vary with the character of 

 the lodge. If the arch gateway be of the 

 Grecian architecture, an iron gate seems the 

 most appropriate: but then it should be 

 massive and rich in its construction ; and, in 

 my opinion, should fill the whole arch. If 

 the gateway be of the Gothic character, I 

 should prefer a close wooden gate, as better 

 suited to the sombre tone of the building. 

 This gate should range with the spring of the 

 arch, and be a straight line on the top. A 

 gate with open bars half way down is not 

 unsuitable to the Gothic, provided the bars 

 are massive, and the mouldings bold. The 

 colour of the wooden gate should be that of 

 oak. I should advise a straight line for a gate 

 in all cases, except where it fills the arch. 



As I conceive a lodge to be governed 

 more by its relative situation than by the 

 mansion, so also, in my opinion, the situ- 

 ation is the primary object to be considered 

 in the character of a bridge. 



Where the scenery warrants, and the 

 splendour of the mansion demands, an archi- 

 tectural bridge, if I may so speak, the degree 

 of magnificence or decoration will depend 

 upon the degree of those qualities exhibited 



