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Stone pillars came into vogue, adorning driveway entrances. Square, instead of the cylindrical of their Neo-Classical inspiration, these pillars were crowned with capitals of heterodox stone slabs stacked on top of each other to give a geometric pattern.
The building was demolished in April 1996, after lying derelict for six years, to make way for three luxury homes. Only two carved stone pillars remain on the site. They are used at the entrance to the current development. Many parts of the building were salvaged and are now used privately.
[4] [5] Stone pillars on each side of the driveway entrance for the building still have the words "Arbuutus" (spelling with the double u's) and "Lodge" on them. Head chefs of Arbutus Lodge were the brothers Declan and Michael Ryan. [6]
The entrance through a doorway on the monumental side, flanked by ornamental stone pillars beneath Egyptian symbols on the lintel and the frieze set the stage. After walking through a small entryway between cloak and storage rooms, the initiated entered a long, lofty rectangular room, only dimly lit by a few sconces on the side walls.
The Rhenish Gothic house is built on a hill in Lower Swell, [1] approached by a long driveway accessed from the A429 Stow Hill (the Fosse Way) and through an entrance with two stone pillars decorated with lion plinths. [2] The house, which includes a saddle roof and open loggia, [3] has 55 rooms. [4]
Where footpaths cross dry stone walls in England a squeeze stile is sometimes found, a vertical gap in the wall, usually no more than 25 centimetres (9.8 in) wide, often formed by stone pillars on either side to protect the structure of the wall.
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Paifang come in a number of forms. One form involves placing wooden pillars onto stone bases, which are bound together with wooden beams. This type of paifang is always beautifully decorated, with the pillars usually painted in red, the beams decorated with intricate designs and Chinese calligraphy, and the roof covered with coloured tiles, complete with mythical beasts—just like a Chinese ...
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