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 79
certainhankering after defensive features: there is a curtain archthrown across between the turrets, from behind which missilescould be hurled upon unwelcome visitors, and the openings inthe turrets are of the smallest. The windows generally are offew lights, the heads are pointed and cusped, the… … Fig. 44.—Compton Winyates, Warwickshire. Ground Plan (cir. 1520). new style in the treatment of parts of the ornament. Thegeneral feeling, however, is still Gothic. There is not much ofthe plan to be made out, but what there is shows a largeentrance tower, with the porch of the hall exactly…
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