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Book: Garden Ornament
Chapter: Entrance gateways and wood and iron gates

Tudor and Jacobean garden ornament

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DURING the time of the English Renaissance, beginning in the days of Henry VIII. and reaching its full development in the succeeding Tudor and Jacobean reigns, the most usual form of gateway piers, whether of brick or stone, was a structure of square sect