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 249
ietyand originality of designwhich are quite remark-able. Two of them areillustrated in Fig. 206.There are also a numberof small ones fitted intocorners of the rooms(Fig. 207), and it is noteworthy that the walls against which the chimney-piece isplaced are faced with stone to receive it, and that… … Fig. 207.—Stone Chimney-Piece, BolsoverCastle, Derbyshire. 196 CHIMNEY-PIECE AT ENFIELD the Victoria and Albert Museum (Fig. 208). The composi-tion does not quite follow the usual lines, inasmuch as theupper part, or overmantel, is not a repetition in idea of thelower. Nor is it divided into panels…
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