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 93
d not of classicprofile. In the entrance gateway we find the new note struck(Fig. 54). The archway is Perpendicidar in character, butabove it is a triple bay window, supported on corbelling, full ofRenaissance detail, while amorini in Roman armour carry longscrolls in their hands, and serve as… … Fig. 53.—Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. West Front (1538). Renaissance ornament is quite characteristic of the period, andshows that the masons, while clinging to the style with whichthey had been familiar since their youth, were endeavouring tomake closer acquaintance with the foreign forms so much…
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