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 135
Y 97 but the severity is relieved by the informal manner in which thesteps wind away to the left. This is an accident arising fromthe fact that the staircase is of an older date : it is covered withGothic vaulting, and at its upper end the original pointed archhas been made semicircular, and the… … Fig. 87.—Porch at Gorhambury, Hertfordshue (1568). by Sir Nicholas Bacon, the father of Lord Bacon, presentanother treatment, which can still be made out in spite of themodern brick buttresses, and the brick arch which has beeninserted below the original one of stone (Fig. 87). There isa projecting…
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