Early renaissance architecture in England : a historical and descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean periods, 1500-1625 : for the use of students and others (1914)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London : B.T. Batsford New York : Scribner's · leaf 266
tain any hold in England, and thereare very few examples t< he found.All the finest staircases are of \v<«>d,and they seem tohave sprung intobeing without anygradual growth ;the connectinglinks between themand the old corkscrew type, if therewere any, have disappeared. The principleupon… … 2I4 < (INSTRUCTION OF STAIRCASES tively narrow pieces of \vood called strings, and the rungs arereplaced by the treads and risers. One side of this amplifiedladder was placed hard on to the wall, the foot of the other wassecured into a stout upright post, or newel, as also was thetop: into the…
Architecture, Renaissance · Architecture -- England
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