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PARKS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



of a site for the entrance. Frequently tlie scanty space 

 admits of nothing more than a gateway in the bonndary 

 wall. The entrance-gate to baronial residences^ in the 

 neighbourhood of towns or villages^ is most advan- 

 tageously set down at the end of one of the leading 

 roads or principal streets. "Wlien it is removed to the 

 ontskirts of the to^m or to a distance from its natural 

 locality for the purpose of securing a long approach, it 

 is apt to suggest the ideas of artifice and unnecessary 

 straining after effect. 



Style of the Gate and Lodge should be regulated 

 by the extent and character of the residence as a whole. 

 The common rule has been, that the style of the lodge 

 and gate should follow exactly that of the mansion- 

 house. Perhaps there is no absolute necessity that it 

 should be so, particularly when the buildings supposed 

 to be compared stand at the distance of one or two 

 miles from each other: nevertheless, there should be 

 no marked opposition between the respective styles. A 

 Grecian lodge and gate will not prepare one for a Gothic 

 or Elizabethan mansion. Mr. Gilpin well remarks, that 

 the style of the lodge and gate should be made suitable 

 to the local position in which they are placed. Were 

 this always the case, their eflPect would be less open to 

 criticism than it fr-equently is. We may add, that there 

 should be a visible harmony, not only in style, but in 

 importance, between the gate and -the lodge; for the 

 one is often sunk by its marked inferiority to the other. 

 Sometimes, when referring to the principal entrance into 

 a park, one hesitates to speak of the gate or of the lodge 

 from the relative want of importance of the one or the 

 other of them. Although the gate is the principal 

 object, and the lodge only an accessory appendage, in 



