Transcriber’s Note: italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equals signs=. LEADWORK “_That which gives to the leadwork of the Middle Ages a particular charm is that the means they employed and the forms they adopted are exactly appropriate to the material. Like Carpentry or Cabinet work, Plumbing was an art apart which borrowed neither from stone nor wood in its design. Mediæval lead was wrought like colossal goldsmith’s work._”--VIOLLET-LE-DUC. LEADWORK OLD AND ORNAMENTAL AND FOR THE MOST PART ENGLISH. BY W. R. LETHABY WITH ILLVSTRATIONS [Illustration] 1893 Macmillan & Co., London & New York. RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED LONDON AND BUNGAY. CONTENTS SECT. PAGE I. OF MATERIAL AND CRAFTSMANSHIP 1 II. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 5 III. OF LEAD COVERINGS TO BUILDINGS 17 IV. OF LEADED SPIRES AND TURRETS 20 V. OF DOMES 33 VI. OF ROOFS 36 VII. OF LEAD COFFINS 40 VIII. OF FONTS 51 IX. OF INSCRIPTIONS, ETC. 65 X. OF THE DECORATION OF LEAD 72 XI. OF LEAD ORNAMENTATION OF OTHER MATERIALS 80 XII. OF DECORATIVE OBJECTS 84 XIII. OF LEAD GLAZING 87 XIV. OF LEAD STATUES 90 XV. OF LEAD FOUNTAINS 112 XVI. OF VASES AND GATE PIERS 114 XVII. OF FINIALS AND CRESTINGS 124 XVIII. OF CISTERNS, ETC. 131 XIX. OF GUTTERS 137 XX. OF PIPES AND PIPE HEADS 139 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. PAGE 1. EGYPTIAN INSCRIBED TABLET 7 2. GREEK QUIVER 8 3. BUILDER’S PLUMMET 9 4, 5. GREEK WEIGHTS 10 6, 7. GREEK WEIGHTS 11 8, 9. CISTS FROM THE KIRCHERIAN MUSEUM 12 10. ROMAN JEWELLED CUP 14 11. SPIRE, BARNSTAPLE 26 12. ANOTHER SPIRE 27 13. TURRET, BARNARD’S INN HALL 29 14. CALAIS BELFRY 32 15. ORNAMENTS FROM COFFINS, CONSTANTINOPLE 41 16, 17. CISTS, BRITISH MUSEUM 42