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, ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 132
tingon an impost, such as usually accompanies a semicircular arch :there is also a keystone which protrudes from the straight lintelinstead of crowning the arch, which in the ordinary way wouldbe there. The twisted columns support pilasters of a differentscale, which in their turn, however, are… … Fig. 83.—Porch at Chelvey Court, Somerset (cir. 1640). THE PORCH 95 shallow pilasters. The spirit of the whole composition isJacobean, but the treatment betokens a late date, with itstwisted columns and broken pediment ; and the arms confirmthe conjecture prompted by the character of the work,…
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