ENTRANCE LODGES AND GATES. 1005 1801 /.Jiu.^^ Sjt. M'hich add nothing whatever to the strength of the gate. The straight diagonals do add strength, and one of them is essential to each gate. Had only one been admitted, as in fig. 1803, the whole would have been in much better taste, because it would have been without pretension, and without offence. Fig. 1 804 is an elevation of a carriage and two footway gates, designed by John Perry, Esq., ?5nd erected, under his superintendence, at Uenbighs, near Haslemere, Surrey. We have introduced it here, chiefly to show the manner of fixing wooden gatea in the country. In this figure, a, b are the ground plans of the posts ; c, d, a plank or beam sunk in the earth two or three feet under the surface, into ■which the posts are
