A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 238
ngs ona different scale, terminating in convex screen walls and squaretowers or pavilions at the end. The abrupt change in scaleshown in this design is unsatisfactory. Flitcroft seems to havedesigned this building piecemeal, or rather to have pieced ittogether from other designs, for the great… … CHAP, x] VARDY 189 great extent by Campbell. This pediment covers a two-storeyfacade, of which the width is exactly three times the height.Woburn Abbey was practically rebuilt by FHtcroft in 1747, andthis may perhaps account for the quadrangular plan, which re-verts to the rudimentary method of…
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