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 283
em. The principals were stillconstructed in the old hammer-beam manner, even at so latea date as 1604 for Trinity College, Cambridge, and 1612 forWadham, but all the ornament is of a late type, and gives avery rich effect, the light glancing upwards against the manysurfaces of the pendants and the… … 147.—Roof of Great Hall, Kirby, Northamptonshire (1575) is later in character. The roof of the hall at Wollaton ispeculiar in that it is of the hammer-beam type, although sup-porting the flat floor of a room over it (Fig. 146). Usually,when there was a room over the hall the ceiling was treatedwith…
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