W. R. Lethaby traces lead as a building material from its qualities and craftsmanship through an historical sketch to its uses: coverings for buildings, leaded spires and turrets, domes, roofs, coffins, and the decorated pipe heads and cisterns of English houses. He argues that medieval leadworkers succeeded because their forms suited the metal exactly.
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