The Growth of the English House

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Author

Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942

Title

The Growth of the English House A short history of its architectural development from 1100 to 1800

Original Publication

United Kingdom: B. T. Batsford,1909.

Credits

MWS, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

NA: Fine Arts: Architecture

Subject

Architecture -- England

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67574

Release Date

March 6, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.The Growth of the ENGLISH HOUSE
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.PREFACE.
7. 7.CONTENTS.
8. 8.CHAPTER I. Introductory—The Norman Keep.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. The Keep Described.
10. 10.CHAPTER III. The Fortified Manor House of the Thirteenth Century—The Dominance of the Hall.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV. The Course of Mediæval Building in the Fourteenth Century.
12. 12.CHAPTER V. The Later Manor House of the Middle Ages.
13. 13.CHAPTER VI. Mediæval Domestic Features—Doorways, Windows, Fireplaces, Chimneys, Roofs and Ceilings, Staircases.
14. 14.CHAPTER VII. Early Sixteenth Century—Coming of the Italian Influence.
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII. Late Sixteenth Century—Symmetry in Planning.
16. 16.CHAPTER IX. Elizabethan and Jacobean Houses—Exteriors.
17. 17.CHAPTER X. Elizabethan and Jacobean Houses—interiors.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI. Seventeenth Century—Personal Design—Transitional Treatment.
19. 19.CHAPTER XII. Classic Detail Established—Influence of the Amateurs.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII. Eighteenth-Century Exteriors—The Palladian Style.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV. Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries—Interiors—Details and Features.
22. 22.CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF CASTLES AND HOUSES.
23. 23.GLOSSARY.
24. 24.INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
25. 25.INDEX TO TEXT. — FOOTNOTES:

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