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 221
ng upas high as the para-pet is as simple asit can well be; thereare no pilasters, noniches, no strap-work panels. Thewindows and thecornices whichmake the circuit ofthe building are theonly architecturalfeatures. Thegables have thestrap-work, but itis of a simpler formthan that at Wolla-ton: the… … 106.—Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire.One of Corner Towers (1588). I 2 122 SIMPLER CURVED GABLES. having recourse to the expensive devices employed at Wollaton.The latter house was built between the years 1580 and 1588,and the gables may therefore be taken as dating from 1588 :the date of the west…
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