Lodge Cottage and Gates, Foliejon Park. Berkshire. 1996.
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| 'In 1996, Quinlan Terry designed one of the most spectacular modern lodges and gateways of any English country house. It was a challenging commission for it was generatedby the patron's wish to incorporate two pairs of nineteenth-century ironwork gates of sumptuos design that he had acquired. The appropriately theatrical setting that Terry devised for them featured an unusually placed lodge cottage, centrally located between two huge gateways that incorporated the owner's ironwork gates. The cottage, with walls of Leicester stock brick, rendered in imitation of stone, is modest in scale but is ambitiously adorned with a Venetian with a pendiment above, containing a bull's-eye window in the tympanum. There are also ball finials, two at the corners and one at the apex. The four monumental piers of the two gateways bear huge, elaborately carved urns, eight feet high, while Terry continued the feel of the nineteenth-century ironwork gates in the form of lower railings that create quadrants sweeping forward in an open, walled piazza'. From Radical Classicism by David Watkin. |
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