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 159
g.112), but it is far behind similar work in Cheshire and Lancashirein richness of detail. In the eastern counties, as in the southern,brick is the chief material, but here, too, plaster played animportant part in clothing the construction. In the west all thedetail was put into the wood ; in the… … Fig. 113.—Hoghton Tower, Lancashire.Bay of Hall. I20 ORNAMENTAL PLASTER AND BRICK walls, and was used in combination with stone to producehighly-ornamental designs ; but its employment seems to havelargely died out with the Gothic forms in which it was so suc-cessfully manipulated. The brickwork,…
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