JOHN CARTER BROWN

LI BRARY

Purchased from the

Trust Fund of

Lathrop Colgate Harper

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ORNAMENTAL

ARCHITECTURE IN THE

Gothic, Chinefe and Modern Taste,

BEING

Above Fifty intire New Designs o F

PLANS, SECTIONS, ELEVATIONS, (Many of which may be executed with Roots of Trees) •

FOR

Gardens, Parks, Forests, V/oods, Canals, &c, •

CONTAINING

Paling of feveral Sorts, Gates, Garden Seats, both

dole and open, Umbrello’s, Al.coves, GjitOTTo’s and Gro¬

tesque Seats, Hermitages,* Triumphal Arches,

ALSO,

An Obelisk or Monument, with Diredions where proper to be ereded, and the Method how to execute them.

The Whole neatly Engrav’d

On Fiftv Four Copper-Plates. ^ From the Defigns of

CHARLES OVER, Architedt.

LONDON: Fnntcd for Robert Sayer, oppofite Fetter-Lane,

Fleet-Street, mdcclviii.

1 emples. Banqueting Houses

and Rooms, Rotundo*s, Observatories, Ice-Houses, Brii gls, Boats, and Cascades,

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Ornamental Architecture.

Plate 1. Four Defigns of Gothic Paling* Numbers i; and 2. for general Ufe, and Numbers 3. and

4. more immediately adapted to Parks, Gardens,

^c. Plate II.

An Example of Iron Railing in the Itdlian Me¬ thod, genteel and ftrong, but not expenlive,

Plate IIL

An Iron Gate and Piers, being not only a lecure Fence, but agreeable Entrance to Parks, ^e.

Plate IV; A Gothic Gate and Piers, which may eafily be exe¬

cuted in Wood or iron; or moft properly, by making the Piers Wood or Stone* and Gats

Iron. ' . Plate V and VI.

Two Defigns for Garden Seats in the Chinefe Tafte, of fmall Expence, genteel and durable.

Plate VIL

A covered Gothic Seat, chiefly ufed in Gardens, and abutting to Buildings, ^Ci

Plate Vlll. • An Umbrello Seat after the Indian Manner, being

one of the moft agreeable Decorations yet known, from its affording a Shade when extended, and beino" on occaflon eafily contradled or removed.

Plate IX. A covered Seat or Alcove, proper to terminate

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r 4 ] Avenues, or place near Pieces of Water in Gar- dehs, fe’e, —its Front Wood* and Eir'p plaiftered Infide and Out.

Plate X. A Gothic fit to place round a Tree, ^c. to take

t e Advantage of Shade, or on an Eminence to command a general Profpea:.

A r, Plate XL A Retreat in the Ge/&V Tafte Ht to command a

ilat View or Garden Scene.

. „ , Plate XII. A Cupulo Garden Seat, raifed on Gothic Columns,

being roomy, genteel and not expenfive Plate XIII.

Are Plans intended for Plates 14 and 15-the Oftagonal Rooms marked A, may terminate in

nL Petrifadtions,

b and C may be ferviceable for Ufe or Eafe . . ,. ^*^^ate XIV.

A Orotto which may be executed with fmall Ex-

Cld’whV''''"^ Forms to r • I \*yr afterwards ornamenting the

, fame with Mofs, Shells, hardy Shrubs, £*. to be fituated near Cafeades, or running Waters.

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asfaken°r''‘^ Seat compofed of large Stones, and f‘om the Qiiarry, geometrically fixed

cToi^v fii? d I«e'-ftiees Cio ely fiiled with Mofs, and being placed in a

Valley or Wildernefs Scene, or fo as m ftem re!

E&a regular Buildings, have a pleafing

Plate XVf An Hermitage to be built with Roots of Trees ce¬

mented with Earth, and a thatched Coverino-

Tt^e ptn View": nf R fL ^ Hermit’s Room, B his Bed of^Rulhes, and C. D, E are Seats’ of Rethe

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A Hermit’s Cell to be raifed not more than fix: Feet, and placed in Tome large Cavern, or ad¬ joining to craggy impending Rocks; it muft not be deftitute of fweet Water—and if near a Stream, Reeds and Rulbes are the fitted Cover¬ ing. Regard lliould be had to Propriety that the Stru6ture and Labour in Building may feem the probable Work of its Inhabitant, and that the Materials are not exotic.

Plate XVIII. A rufiicated Arch, much ufed by the Chinefe—may

be formed with large Roots, or even Tops of old Pollard Trees. A View of regular Garden Plots, Buildings, through one of thefe re¬ ceives an additional Beauty.

Plate XIX. The Plan and Elevation of a fmall oftagon Gothic

Temple. Plate XX.

Plan and Elevation of an Hexagon Temple in the Gothic Tafte *, the Infide may be finifiied with P’lafter, and Outfide ftucco’d.

Plate XXL An open Chinefe Temple, eafily portable by the

Columns being pointed, and Covering of painted Canvafs *, proper to be placed in lawn Flower- Gardens, or any Place deftitute of Shade j and may'be houfed in Winter.

Plate XXII. A fquare open Gothic Garden Seat.

Plate XXIII. Is a fquare Chinefe Temple, with an upper Story t,

ufeful where the Profped; from below is inter¬ rupted.

Plate XXIV. ^ Plan and Elevation of a I'quare Chinefe Temple.

Plate XXV. An open Gothic Temple, adapted to fome fmall

Eminence near the Manfion. Plate

SealoVofYrural banquetirta

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Lath and Raifter""^ T 1 Plate XXVII Is the Outfide Elevation to Plate 26,

A fmall Gc/foV Rotundl T»t Plate XXIX

. Tempfe. ^ H=“gonal CM,

Th.- ■ „ Liate XXX. ihe interior Struarure of Plate 29.

An our Pi-ate XXXI. An Obfervatory afcended to by geometrical Stairs. PI , Plate XXXII Pian and Elevation of a circular Gel&V Temple.

A flight oflagonal Ge/&

A fmall fpiral Ge/foV Tem^f"^*^'

Plan nr-, P I- A T E XXXV. Ran and Elevation of an oftangular Ge/&V Tem . P;^^.^_having an agreeable Eff?a on loft;

A regular Geti/r TempV

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bkewife rendered ?rnl - c ^ Fretwork above j brello’d without. “m-

ArePI n^’'-A'rE XXXVIII;

Plan, B °thfupp?s7'"”P''’ d o . the^uppe^rSto^y.^,^dCtheCupulo.

accuitomed to decorate their Gardens, £^r. ,

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Plate XL. Is the Sedion of Plate 39.

Plate XLI. Are the Geometrical Stairs in Plate 39. Thefe un¬

common Stairs, tho* of a furprifing Appear¬ ance, are in the Conftruftion fimple, and in their Nature ftrong; may be made of Wood or Stone, and give convenient Paflage to two Per- fons at once ; and make the moft romantic Show’ without Hand-rails; their Strength confifts in being laid round, over-hanging each other until a Newil or Column is formed, as at A, after which each Round becomes its own fufficient Bafis.

Plate XLII. The Plan of a Houfe to keep Ice in the Year round,

and is built in the following manner—The En¬ trance at A may ferve well for a Grotto, B B two Doors made clofe to exclude air as much aspoffible; C the Bottom on which the Ice is laid, which has fmall Holes to permit the melt¬ ed. Ice to drain off, which mull pafs by a Well, Level, Cfr. and D is the Fruftrum of a Cone, See Section Plate 43, E is a Cavity between the Walls, which are always built double thus, that the Damps or Sweating of the Earth and Lime Cfr, mav not affect the Matter within.

Plate XLIII. Section to plate 44. A, BB, C are theEntrance,Door

and Ice-Room, 42. D is the Well there refer’d to; EE is athicknefs of Clay well ramm’d to the Walls, the better to prevent the admiffion of air or damps. Their Situation fhould be for the Door to front the North, and amidft a Cop¬ pice or Thicket of Trees.

Plate XLIV. 7'he Elevation of an Ice-Houfe, of which fee the

l^lan apd Section in Plate 42, 43. Plate

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Plan of a wooden Bridge 40 Foot fpan'd. A the Beams, B the joifts, G the planks to lay the Gravel on.

Plate XLVI. Elevation of the Bridge, fee plate 45. wherein the

framing and manner of piling its Butments are fhewn.

Plate XLVII. A Defign for a Bridge to be made with Hiort tim¬

ber, therefore may beeffedled for a fmall Ex¬ pence, yet llrong.

Plate XLVIII. Plan and Elevation of the framing of a Foot-

Bridge for Parks or Gardens, which by taking the Roots of Xree, and barking, thenfawing one fide till they can be nailed to the framing if in- genioufly difpofed, and afterwards painted have an agreeable Effedt, fee Plate 49,

Plate XLIX. The Foot-bridge decorated with Roots of Trees,

fee plate 48. Plate L.

A canopy’d Chinefe Boat. Plate LT.

A Chinefe Pleafure Boat in fhape a Dragon. Plate LII.

A Cafeade which may eafily be effedled in Gardens, &c. *

Plate LIIT. A Cafeade^ which where the Fall is large refcmbles

the Noife of a Cataract. Plate LIV.

An'Obeliflc or Honorary Monument, ‘ which in Parks, and at the Termination of Viflo’s, have a moft agreeable Effeft.

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