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 278
21. THE BALUSTRADE stout turned bars. But there was much variety imparted tothe turning, and while many of the outhnes are rather clumsy,many of them also exhibit considerable subtlety and refine-ment. To increase the richness of effect the newels wereornamented either with carving, or with a… … Fig. 236.—Staircase at Benthall Hall, Shropshire. by sinking the groundwork, thus leaving the pattern itselfraised and at the same level as the general face of the newel.The tops of the newel were sometimes little more than roundknobs, as at Hambleton Old Hall (Fig. 229), and a house atWarwick…
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