A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 352
nturies. Lead was constantly used in the sixteenthcentury for enrichments to friezes and ceilings, for which pur-pose repeating patterns were cast in lead, applied to the ground. CHAP. XIV] LEADWORK 283 and gilt or coloured. In Wolseys closet at Hampton Courtthe ceiling is formed in octagonal… … il«l»WJ*«f*->;-^ LEAD CISTERN AT THE VYXE, BASINGSTOKE. chapel at Hampton Court were cast in lead and gilt, and thelead for this and other work at Hampton Court, carried outunder Wolsey and Henry VHL, was bought from MasterBabington in Derbyshire. In the accounts for the building ofa banqueting…
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