Pargeting
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Pargeting is a decorative or waterproof plastering applied to building walls. The term, if not the practice, is particularly associated with the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. In the neighbour
Pargeting on the upper wall of the County Museum in Clare, Suffolk.
The Ancient House in Ipswich has a particularly fine example of pargeting, depicting scenes from the four continents. When the hall was built in 1670, Australia and Antarctica had not yet been discovered by Europeans, and the Americas were considered a single continent.
Ipswich
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Ipswich is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, located on the Orwell river. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest pop
Pargeting
…Sometimes these devices are in relief, and in the time of Elizabeth I of England represent figures, birds and foliage. Fine examples can be seen at Ipswich, Maidstone, and Newark-on-Trent. The term is also applied to the lining of the inside of smoke flues to form an even surface for the passage of the…
Ipswich Christchurch Mansion Cropped
St Mary Le Tower, Ipswich 01
Clear sky afternoon on the Ipswich Waterfront
Orwell Bridge