Architecture -- England
Not the least interesting branch of modern research is that which opens for us new chapters in the history of our own country and shows us the character and ambitions in the lives of our ancestors. The public have long been familiarised with the results of scientific inquiry i...
Not the least interesting branch of modern research is that which opens for us new chapters in the history of our own country and shows us the character and ambitions in the liv...
2. Part 2Nonsuch appears to have been one of the earliest instances of this type of work in England. Le Neve, who saw the house when half destroyed, describes them as done in plaster-wor...
3. Part 3From the body of evidence on this point we must conclude that the Swan drawing does not correctly show the back of the stage; or, as I would suggest, the rear wall as there repr...
4. Part 4Although the two plans are full of detail, and evidently drawn with great care, they share with practically all ancient plans a certain inaccuracy which is often very puzzling....
5. Part 5The Norman conquerors of England brought with them their own architecture, and must necessarily, at any rate at first, have introduced their own masons and craftsmen to carry it...
6. Part 6The fourth plan is by far the most interesting from the topographical point of view, for it gives the divisions of all the gardens and forecourts and the outline of the riverban...
7. Part 7The traditional removal of fittings and furniture from the dissolved monastic houses to neighbouring parish churches is generally found on examination to be devoid of any founda...
8. Part 8The most interesting part of the work of rebuilding was not the roof but the little vault over the oriel. No one who had not seen it would believe the wonderful precision and de...
9. Part 9Sir Robert Cotton’s house presents at first sight a difficulty. It is shown on the plan of 1626 as lying westward of the boundary within the York House property, but this appear...
10. Part 10Much as we may regret the sacrifice of this commanding building and all the associations which clung to its fabric, we must remember that it had suffered considerable rebuilding...
11. Part 11The limits of the precinct at Barking cannot now be fixed with any precision, but the general lines are not difficult to ascertain. The great gatehouse probably stood in the nei...
12. Part 12F. T. Dollman in his _Examples of Domestic Architecture_ (1858) was one of the earliest writers to point out the two chief models upon which the hospital plan was formed. The or...
13. Part 13The finest remaining examples of the English preaching nave are the Austin Friars, London (153 ft. by 83 ft.), and the Dominican Church, Norwich, now St. Andrew’s Hall (124 ft....
14. Part 14The choir, in all probability aisleless, measured 90 feet from east to west, making six bays. The great cloister (110 feet square) lay to the south of the Church, and, unlike th...
15. Part 15Tower of London, The, 29–45, 70, 181 Beauchamp Tower, 41 Bell Tower, 35, 37, 41 Bloody Tower, 38, 41 Bowyer Tower, 37 Brass Mount, 38 Brick Tower, 37 Broad Arrow Tower, 42 Bulwa...