Early Renaissance Architecture in England: A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred)
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Early Renaissance Architecture in England: A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625
In the next example (Figs. 221, 222) we have a further departure
from the old type. Screens of a kind there are, but the front door
leads only to the hall (through a vestibule), and the hall has to be
traversed to gain the kitchen. The buttery is in an entirely novel
position, and the tendency clearly is to preserve the front door for
the family, and to relegate the servants to their own entrance. A
curious point is that the only way from the kitchen to the buttery,
to the upper floor, or to the outside, is through the hall. In spite
of these changes the daïs still remains, as though the old custom of
dining in the hall survived, notwithstanding the constant traffic which
the service of the kitchen must have entailed. The upper plan shows
the long gallery--apparently 62 feet long by only 10 feet wide--and
the great chamber, 40 feet by 21 feet, which is over the hall. The
draughtsman has apparently been led by the symmetry of his arrangements
into placing the gallery on the wrong façade in his upper plan.
According to a note on the ground plan it should be at the back, and
the elevation confirms this disposition. Owing to the situation of
the hall it can no longer obtain light from the sides, nor can there
be any bay window to the daïs: the only light it receives is from a
large window at one end, which must be greatly darkened by the arcade
in front of it, carrying the gallery. The great chamber is subject in
a less degree to similar disadvantages, receiving light only from one
end. The treatment of the exterior is somewhat after the fashion of
Wollaton, but of a plainer kind; there is a central block surrounded by
rooms roofed at a lower level, and at each corner is a pavilion. It is
quite possible that this is merely an exercise in design, and that it
was never carried out, nor even thoroughly digested.
[Illustration: 221.--GROUND AND UPPER PLANS, UN-NAMED (PAGE 85).
1. Hall
2. Parlour.
3. Principal Stairs.
4,4. Lodging.
5. Kitchen.
6. Buttery.
7. Back Stairs.
8,8. Open Arcade.
9. Great Chamber.
10. Gallery.
11. Stairs.
Other Rooms on Upper Floor are Lodgings.]
[Illustration: 222.--ELEVATION OF PLANS IN FIG. 221 (PAGE 85).]
[Illustration: 223.--UN-NAMED PLAN AND ELEVATION (PAGE 34).
1. Hall.
2. Parlour.
3. Withdrawing Room.
4. Closet.
5,5. Lodging.
6. Principal Stairs.
7. Buttery.
8. Back Stairs.
9. Kitchen.
10. Larder.
11. Bolting-house.
12. Pastry.]
[Illustration: 224.--"FOR MR. WILLm. POWELL" (PAGES 265, 266).
1. Hall.
2. Dining Parlour.
3. Principal Stairs.
4. Lodging.
5. Inner Lodging.
6. Winter Parlour.
7. Buttery.
8. Survaying Place.
9. Back Stairs.
10. Kitchen.
11. Larder.
12. Court.]
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