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 189
. 103 ceiling in one of the parlours, and some of the woodwork isof unusual elaboration. The character of the work points tothe early part of the seventeenth century as the date of erection.In these simpler examples the windows do not occupy nearlyso large a proportion of the wall space as they do… … 87.—Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire (1613). the site of the ancient keep, which no doubt largely con-trolled its size. There are no gables, all the roofs being flat;that over the house itself is approached by a staircase in adomed turret, and was intended as a place of resort. Theusual picturesqueness…
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