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 270
TYPES OF STAIRCASES 21 ployment of winders, and shows the somewhat unusualarrangement of two lower flights combining into one upperflight; No. 6, being in a turret, consists wholly of winders;and Nos. 7 and 8 are instances of a rather grander styleof planning, in which it is evident that… … ~_JL Fin. 235.—Staircase at Ockwells Manor House, Berkshire. aimed at. The plans varied, of course, according to the dis-po^tion of the rooms to be reached: the chief characteristicswere simplicity of construction and massiveness of effect.In the less important houses the work was fairly plain:…
Architecture, Renaissance · Architecture -- England
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