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 148
Fig. 99.—Burghley House, Northamptonshire. At Charlton, in Wiltshire (Fig. 100), there is an example ofthe open arcade, which became rather fashionable, but whichlater generations have, in many houses, found unsuitable toour climate, and of which the arches have in consequence been … Fig. 100.—Charlton House, Wiltshire (1607). OF THE SMALLER HOUSES 109 filled up. The gables here are ornamented with a kind offiligree, which is more curious than beautiful. At KentwellHall, in Suffolk, the dignified effect is produced by the combina-tion of two turrets with the front gables, by…
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