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The square-headed door consists of six slightly moulded vertical planks overlapping one another and studded with four rows of twelve iron nails, two of which are arranged  on each plank. There are two hinges with long bands on the back and the marks of two long hinge bands on the front; it is also fitted with a latch and bolt of wrought iron.\r\n\r\nCESCINSKY, Herbert & Ernest Gribble: Early English Furniture & Woodwork. 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(The purchase of wall panelling and a chimneypiece from Church Farm was rejected as they had come from a different house, and were about 150 years later in date.) Purchased for £450 from Mr George von Pirch (7 Arundel Mansions, Fulham), who had removed them from the farm, probably acting for Sir Charles Lawes of St. Albans. Recommended by the architect T.G. Jackson and the artist Walter Crane.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Carved oak door and framework from the Church Farm, Clare, Suffolk.  English, 1475-1525.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Charles Tracy, English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork (London, The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988), cat. no. 248, fig.235\n\r\n'DOORWAY and DOOR; the doorway has a depressed pointed arch with a boss and a long serrated leaf in each spandrel; the lintel and jambs are moulded. The square-headed door consists of six slightly moulded vertical planks overlapping one another and studded with four rows of twelve iron nails, two of which are arranged on each plank. There are two hinges with long bands on the back and the marks of two long hinge bands on the front; it is also fitted with a latch and bolt of wrought iron (PL.8o). \r\nFrom the Church Farm, Clare, Suffolk\r\nOak. Early 16th century \r\n254 x 1.29 cm\r\nMus. No. 727-1902\r\nDescribed in Basil Oliver,Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia, London, 1912, FIG.22 as ‘A thoroughly East Anglian example, typical of hundreds which formerly existed in all three counties’. The mixture of styles used in the decoration is noticeable. In the door-head spandrels the leaf motif is typical of the fifteenth century, as are also the buttresses on either side of the cartway (Mus. No. 726-1902). Yet the spandrel carving of the cartway head is pure Renaissance in design'.\r\n\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"CESCINSKY, Herbert & Ernest Gribble: Early English Furniture & Woodwork. Vol. I (London, 1922), p.209\r\n“To this early sixteenth century belongs the oak door with its surround, from Church Farm, Clare, Suffolk, Fig. 235, which may be taken as a representative specimen of a timber house door of the un ostentatious kind. The construction of this door is exceptional. On a framed back the front boards are nailed , each with a slight overlap over the next, or clinker-boarded, to use the technical term, the left hand edge of each (that is, the one that is not hidden by the overlapping of the next) being moulded with a scratch-bead. The original iron strap hinges, which are missing, were cut in across the width of the boards, at varying depths according to the forward projection, as the boards, in cross-section, are arranged thus:\r\n [ diagram ]\r\nEach board is nailed to the framing behind, with four courses of clout-headed iron nails. There are, of course, no vertical ribs, as the construction forbids."}],"production":"Suffolk","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["727-1902"],"accessionNumberNum":"727","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1902,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN1001","2019LR5035","2019LU2318"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2007-09-10","availableToBook":false}}