Category: History - British
The progress of style in the mediæval architecture of England was regular and continuous: so much so, that any one thoroughly acquainted with its various phases can tell the date of a building within some ten years by merely examining the mouldings which embellish it. These su...
In the foregoing pages examples have been given of the architectural work of the sixteenth century--examples taken from all parts of England, and illustrating all kinds of featu...
3. CHAPTER III.The principal buildings erected during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were houses, and it is mainly in connection with domestic architecture that we must seek to...
7. CHAPTER VII.The chief points in the internal arrangement of houses of the period have already been explained in the third chapter. The hall was the central feature, entered at one end; next...
11. CHAPTER XI.One of the most valuable sources for obtaining knowledge of the house-planning of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. is the collection of drawings in the Soane Museum, known a...
8. CHAPTER VIII.On entering the hall after leaving the courtyard, it was on such panelling as this that the eye rested. The screen which divided the hall from the passage was generally even mor...
2. CHAPTER II.In order properly to understand the position of the Elizabethan mansion in the story of architectural development, it is necessary to examine the work which intervenes between i...
10. CHAPTER X.The houses built in towns followed much the same lines as those erected elsewhere in general treatment, but the plan was of course restricted by the situation of the house, and...
4. CHAPTER IV.There was a very remarkable amount of building done in the last quarter of the sixteenth century. Plenty of money was available, much of it acquired from the lands of the dissol...
5. CHAPTER V.Before proceeding to enter one of these doorways and to examine the interior treatment of an Elizabethan house, it will be well to look at the exterior more closely. We find tha...
6. CHAPTER VI.The gable is one of the characteristic features of the period. As a rule it was of steep pitch--indeed, in many thatched barns and cottages the apex is very acute (Fig. 100). In...
9. CHAPTER IX.The staircases of the early part of the sixteenth century followed the old fashion, and were of the "corkscrew" type, winding round a central newel. They were built of stone or...
1. CHAPTER I.The progress of style in the mediæval architecture of England was regular and continuous: so much so, that any one thoroughly acquainted with its various phases can tell the dat...