DOI Heft:
No. 161 (August, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Erskine, Steuart: The Watts Memorial Gallery at Limnerslease
DOI Artikel:Vallance, Aymer: Recent lead-work by Mr. G. P. Bankart
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0215
Recent Lead-Work by Mr. G. P. Bankart
tion enjoins that the most satisfac-
tory result is always to be sought
not in heaping up of ornament for
its own sake, but in its application
to the beautifying of necessary and
constructive features.
The first-named of these, anchor-
ties, treated ornamentally, are of
rare occurrence in this country ; but
anyone who has travelled in nor-
thern Europe must have noticed
these familiar objects in many an
old building. I can recall some
fine examples on the Town Hall at
Bailleul, in the streets of St. Omer
and Aix-la-Chapelle, as well as in
various places in the Low Countries,
too numerous to mention. Drawings
of such things are not often re-
produced amongst us, but some
excellent early sixteenth - century
specimens from Dordrecht are
figured in Plate 33, Part VIII., of
the “Spring Gardens Sketch Book.”
On the other hand, we in England
can boast of . a vast number of
ancient examples of ornamental
lead-work; while it is but necessary
to name one building, the home of
the merchant prince, Jacques Coeur,
at Bourges, to show to what a high
degree of development in the
In conclusion, warmest thanks are due to Mrs. fifteenth century the art of plumbing had attained
Watts, who has admirably carried out her scheme in France.
of a Memorial Gallery and has had the public In his admirable volume on “ Lead-work,” Pro-
spirit to make it accessible to all. fessor Lethaby, though illustrating an ornamental
Recent lead-work by mr.
G. P. BANKART. BY AYMER
VALLANCE.
It is a very hopeful sign of the times that
designers should be devoting their energies to
details of architectural work, many indispensable
accessories of which have too long been left to the
mere trade furnisher or fitter, with, of course,
disastrous consequences from the artistic point of
view. Yet it is worth noting how much character
and beauty may be imparted to an otherwise plain
fagade of brick or stone by careful attention to
the artistic fashioning and disposition of com-
monplace utilitarian objects like anchor-ties, rain-
pipes and gutters. There is nothing to be wondered
at in this, since one of the primary laws of decora-
194
FIG. I. LEAD FONT FOR DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
MODDERSHALL CHURCH BY G. P. BANKART
lady garvagh (Photo. F. Hollyer) by g. f. watts, r.a.
tion enjoins that the most satisfac-
tory result is always to be sought
not in heaping up of ornament for
its own sake, but in its application
to the beautifying of necessary and
constructive features.
The first-named of these, anchor-
ties, treated ornamentally, are of
rare occurrence in this country ; but
anyone who has travelled in nor-
thern Europe must have noticed
these familiar objects in many an
old building. I can recall some
fine examples on the Town Hall at
Bailleul, in the streets of St. Omer
and Aix-la-Chapelle, as well as in
various places in the Low Countries,
too numerous to mention. Drawings
of such things are not often re-
produced amongst us, but some
excellent early sixteenth - century
specimens from Dordrecht are
figured in Plate 33, Part VIII., of
the “Spring Gardens Sketch Book.”
On the other hand, we in England
can boast of . a vast number of
ancient examples of ornamental
lead-work; while it is but necessary
to name one building, the home of
the merchant prince, Jacques Coeur,
at Bourges, to show to what a high
degree of development in the
In conclusion, warmest thanks are due to Mrs. fifteenth century the art of plumbing had attained
Watts, who has admirably carried out her scheme in France.
of a Memorial Gallery and has had the public In his admirable volume on “ Lead-work,” Pro-
spirit to make it accessible to all. fessor Lethaby, though illustrating an ornamental
Recent lead-work by mr.
G. P. BANKART. BY AYMER
VALLANCE.
It is a very hopeful sign of the times that
designers should be devoting their energies to
details of architectural work, many indispensable
accessories of which have too long been left to the
mere trade furnisher or fitter, with, of course,
disastrous consequences from the artistic point of
view. Yet it is worth noting how much character
and beauty may be imparted to an otherwise plain
fagade of brick or stone by careful attention to
the artistic fashioning and disposition of com-
monplace utilitarian objects like anchor-ties, rain-
pipes and gutters. There is nothing to be wondered
at in this, since one of the primary laws of decora-
194
FIG. I. LEAD FONT FOR DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
MODDERSHALL CHURCH BY G. P. BANKART
lady garvagh (Photo. F. Hollyer) by g. f. watts, r.a.