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House 
& Carden 
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Watch Making 
Louver in barn 
of Lower Slaugh¬ 
ter Manor in 
Gloucestershire, 
England, used 
also as a clock 
tower 
A MOST excellent example of hand-work 
was the early art of watch-making. The 
artisan would toil alone, an entire year or 
more to complete one watch, forging every 
gear, tempering the springs and finally en¬ 
graving the finished time-piece. Despite their 
clumsy tools, their mechanisms were finely 
wrought and delicately adjusted. 
Their zeal in creation is found 
to-day among the linen weavers. 
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which is responsible for it’s unmatched 
quality. 
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An illustrated catalogue on request. 
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The Ancestor of the Skylight 
(Continued from page 59) 
domestic louver has two functions to 
furnish ventilation and to admit light, 
or oftentimes both together. 
What we are here concerned with is 
the architectural function of the louver; 
architectural, that is to say, with re¬ 
spect to the art of architecture as dis¬ 
tinguished from the mechanics. Con¬ 
sidered solely from this point of view, 
its purpose is to contribute emphasis 
and finish. By examining first some 
specific examples which embody this 
purpose, we shall gain a much clearer 
conception of the values, or rather the 
kinds of value, with which the louver 
is potentially invested, than we could 
by merely tabulating characteristics. 
Let us take first the graceful little 
hexagonal louver upon a barn in 
Worcestershire which, be it noted, ful¬ 
fills the double function of providing 
ventilation and admitting light. The 
lower part of each side, protected by a 
flaring leaden projection, is open for 
the circulation of air; the upper part 
of each side is so glazed that a maxi¬ 
mum of light may enter. The leaden 
cap, terminating in a ball, is appropri¬ 
ately surmounted by a wrought iron 
weathervane, and the utilitarian flare 
protecting the air apertures is also an 
essential part of a very satisfying de¬ 
sign. As one looks at this delicately 
fashioned little louver, so eminently in 
keeping with its surroundings, one is 
involuntarily put in mind of a painful 
contrast—the all too familiar galvanized 
iron ventilator with a tumid circular 
top, like a chimney pot with the mumps. 
The latter contrivance is a bit of wholly 
unnecessary ugliness. 
Closely akin to the barn louver, just 
mentioned, is the louver, upon the house 
at Lugger’s Hill, with a lead-sheathed 
top and base. While serving as a sky¬ 
light it also gives a highly agreeable 
note of architectural emphasis and in¬ 
terest. Its value in this respect may be 
judged by visualizing the house with¬ 
out it. The octagonal ventilating lou¬ 
ver, also containing a clock, on the barn 
at Lower Slaughter Manor, gives ap¬ 
preciable vivacity to the composition 
without disturbing its dignity. 
At the Moravian Sisters’ House, in 
(Continued on page 70) 
An example of the louver used on a residence is found at 
Lugger’s Hill, Worcestershire. It is topped and sided with 
lead, and serves as a skylight. Andrew N. Prentice, architect 
