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 173
utchand German work the designers seemed to lose sight of theirpurpose in the exuberance of their ornament, but here it is notso. It will be seen that the circular niches on the side facesare filled with busts, although the vertical niches between thepilasters are empty. The busts, so far as they… … Fig. 130.—CoUai^e at Steventon, Berkshire. 134 CURVED GABLES Wollaton (Fig. 97). Here everything up as high as the para-pet is as simple as it can well be; there are no pilasters, noniches, no strap-work panels. The windows and the cornices which make the circuit of the K^miMtms&K.^ .r. ■«.…
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