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 183
re no gables, but there are none inthe later part built between 1575 and 1587. The great hallhas gables, but that was built some years earlier. At Charlton, in Wiltshire (Fig. 80), there is an example ofthe open arcade, which became rather fashionable, but whichlater generations have, in many… … THE LARGER HOUSES. 99 near Birmingham, the south front presents another instance ofan open arcade (Fig. 81), and a good deal of picturesquenessis imparted by the broken outline of the gables. CorshamCourt, in Wiltshire, shows a more restrained treatment(Fig. 82). The animated effect is obtained by…
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