Studio: international art (46.1909)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

FONT COVER FOR OAKHAM CHURCH IN OAK AND
WROUGHT STEEL, SHOWING SWAGED AND FULLERED
STRAPPING. FORGED BY WALTER SPENCER. DESIGNED
BY EDWARD SPENCER. ZODIAC PANELS BY J. BONNOR
(ARTIFICERS’ GUILD). WOODWORK BY A. ROMNEY
GREEN

R

ECENT DESIGNS IN DOMESTIC
ARCHITECTURE.

This month our illustrations embrace
several different types of building erected or to be
erected in various parts of England. First we
have illustrations, reproduced from photographs, of
an important country residence carried out from
the design of Mr. W. H. Ansell, A.R.I.B.A., of
New Square, Lincoln’s Inn. This house, known
as Knappe Cross, stands about two miles from
Exmouth on the hill overlooking the estuary of
the Exe and the English Channel. The garden
front of the house faces S. by S.W., and the windows
of the principal rooms are on this front and the
western one, in order to have the full advantage of
the view. As will be seen by the plan (p. 212) the
hall is the centre of the life of the house; from it
the three main reception rooms are approached, and
the principal stairs lead from a recess in it to the
bedrooms on the floor above. The kitchen, scul-
lery, larders, etc., are placed at the north-east

point should be noted. The old stamped work was
entirely one-sided, the forged-out ends of tapered
bars being driven red-hot into a hardened matrix
or core by blows of the sledge-hammer and the
impression thus made trimmed up afterwards with
hammer and chisel. This method renders the
work available for use only under conditions that
prevent one side of the work from being seen, as in
the case of the Eleanor Grille, but it is quite
possible, as any good smith can prove, to turn out
stamped work double-sided by means of a double
matrix, and thus to render the method perfectly
suitable for chancel screens, altar rails and gates
and railings of every description ; as it takes little
longer to forge a double-sided figure than a single-
sided one, it is difficult to assign a reason for the
neglect in modern ecclesiastical architecture of this
beautiful method of work.

The accompanying illustrations show the modern
use of all the above-mentioned methods in a variety
of objects made during the last few months by the
Artificers’ Guild. Edward Spencer.

Walter Spencer.

A coloured etching by M. Ch. Cottet exhibited at
the February exhibition of the International Society
under the title Avila, Espagne, and reproduced as
such in our last number, represents, we are informed,
a view, not of Avila, but of Pont-en-Royans.

WROUGHT IRON DOG (PART OF SET
MADE FOR I- H. LARGELY, ESQ.)
SHOWING DEEP FULLER LINES ON
STEM AND PIERCED AND TOOLED
WORK ON HEAD

FORGED BY WALTER SPENCER
DESIGNED BY EDWARD SPENCER

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