Early renaissance architecture in England; a historical & descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan & Jacobean periods, 1500-1625, for the use of students and others (1901)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 167
g thosethree of the Nine Worthies who were of Christian extraction.In the spandrils of the arch are circular medallions with busts,and in the parapet are the royal arms. There was also over ^. GORHAMBURY. 89 the arch (we are told) a grey marble panel with four Latinverses, stating that the house… … 71.—Hambleton Hall, Rutland. Statues, busts, and inscriptions are all characteristic of thetaste of the period, and will be more particularly dealt withlater on in connection with the design of chimney-pieces. Thehouse which was thus finished in the tenth year of Elizabeth,that is in 1568, was…
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