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 271
e elaborate pieces of work, upon which much inge-nuity of contrivance and ornament was bestowed. From beingtwo or three feet wide, they became ten or twelve. Instead ofcurling up a narrow turret, they occupied a considerable tower,and the tower, being one of the chief features of the house, had… … Fig. 227.—Staircase at Lyveden Old Building, Northamptonshire. formed a plinth, a third served as a cornice ; another cornicefollowed the sweep of the steps where they rested on the outsidewall: everything was done to make the constructional features 212 A VAULTED STAIRCASE serve as ornaments, and…
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