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 271
ect.In the less important houses the work was fairly plain: thenewels were unornamented, except for a shaped top; the strino-\vas moulded at the top and bottom ; the balusters were merely 2l8 THE BALUSTRADE stout turned bars. Hut there was much variety imparted tothe turning, and while manv of the… … I i - 2V- Stairca.se.it Benthall Hall, Sim ,]>s)iii r. by sinking the groundwork, thus leaving the pattern itselfraised and at the same level as the general face of the newel.The tops of the newel were sometimes little more than roundknobs, as at Hambleton Old Hall (Fig. 229), and a house…
Architecture, Renaissance · Architecture -- England
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