EARLY RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE
IN ENGLAND.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
Architecture of the
Renaissance in England.
ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF VIEWS
AND DETAILS FROM BUILDINGS ERECTED
BETWEEN THE YEARS 1560 and 1635, WITH
HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL TEXT....
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Plate I.
HENRY VII.'S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
INTERIOR VIEW, SHOWING VAULTING AND SCREEN.
EARLY RENAISSANCE
ARCHITECTURE
IN ENGLAND
A HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE
TUDOR, ELIZABETHAN, & JACOBEAN PERIODS,
1500-1625
FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS AND OTHERS
BY
J. ALFRED GOTCH, F.S.A.
AUTHOR OF "ARCHITECTURE OF THE
RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND," ETC.
WITH EIGHTY-SEVEN COLLOTYPE AND OTHER PLATES AND
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
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PREFACE.
It should, perhaps, be observed that although this book is entitledEarly Renaissance Architecture in England, it deals with much thesame period as that covered by my former work The Architecture of theRenaissance in England, but with the addition of the first half ofthe sixteenth century. The two books, however, have nothing in commonbeyond the fact that they both illustrate the work of a particularperiod. The former book exhibits a series of examples, to a largescale, of Elizabethan and Jacobean buildings, with a brief accountof each: whereas this one takes the form of a handbook in which theendeavour is made to trace in a systematic manner the development ofstyle from the close of the Gothic period down to the advent of InigoJones.
It is not the inclusion of the first half of the sixteenth centurywhich alone has led to the adoption of the title Early Renaissance:the limitation of period which these words indicate appearedparticularly necessary in consequence of the recent publication oftwo other books, one being the important work of Mr. Belcher and Mr.Macartney, illustrating buildings of the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies, under the title of Later Renaissance Architecture inEngland; and the other being Mr. Reginald Blomfield's scholarly book,A History of Renaissance Architecture in England, which, althoughit starts with the beginning of the sixteenth century, does not dwellat any length upon the earlier work, but is chiefly devoted to anexhaustive survey of that of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The value of a work on Architecture is greatly enhanced by[vi]illustrations, and I am much indebted to the nu