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 66
but these walls incomparablybeautified. I observd that the appearing timber punchions,entrelices, etc., were all so coverd with scales of slate, that itseemd carvd in the wood and painted, the slate fastened onthe timber in pretty figures, that has, like a coate of armour,preservd it from rotting.… … lookedthe great gates,and found a noblecourt. In Sep-tember, 1665, hewas again there,and while waitingabout he ex-amined the house,which was, hesays, on the out-side filled withfigures of stories,and good paintingof Rubens orHolbensAnd onething is, that mostof the house iscovered, I mean the post…
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