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 96
wo staircases were necessary to get to the upper rooms ; as a matter of fact there were usually more than^-^two, as there are here : difficulties of planning being often *removed, or at any rate lessened, by this rather costly expedient. -It will be seen that the hall has a range of rooms at the… … 37.—COMPTON WiNVATES, WARWICKSHIRE. GROUND Pl,AN (CIR. I520). led into one another, the passage being a later addition. Theornament, in which the house abounds, is all of Late Gothiccharacter (Plate XII.). There is no actual Renaissance detailin the external work, although much of it looks as…
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