Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII (1859)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford London, J. H. and J. Parker · leaf 216
yed. The style is latePerpendicular, verging in some parts on Cinque-cento. In describing this building it is impossible not to compare itwith Hurstmonceux. Cowdray is very much smaller, and ismore thoroughly domestic in its character; no one could everapply the name castle to it. It has also far… … SUSSEX. 317 shew for instance in the way of windows, which are so strangelydeficient at Hurstmonceux; here we have many elaborate oriels,rising from the ground to the roof; we have also, besides a gate-way of quite sufficient character, a hall and chapel which wouldput the vaster edifice to the…
Architecture, Domestic
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