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
Nor was the foreign detail on the stone simply added to the English
work after the native craftsmen had finished. It was not that the
Englishman completed his work and then invited the Italian to come
and do the carving after his own manner, but the two influences are
curiously mixed. Take the fan-vaulting of the porch at Cowdray (Plate
IV.), for instance. In general appearance it is of the same family as
other fan-vaulting, of which the roof of the Chapel of the Red Mount
at King's Lynn may be taken as a specimen. But, as might be expected,
it is in the susceptible parts of the stonework that the foreign
influence first shows itself,--not in the construction, but in the
ornament. The spandrils at Cowdray are filled with carving; some of it
is foliage, treated in the Late Gothic manner, but in one appears the
head of a winged cherub, clearly not of English but Italian descent.
The main ribs of the vaulting, too, have an Italian arabesque worked
on them, and the point to be observed here is that the section of the
rib is not of the usual type, but is expressly designed to receive the
arabesque (Fig. 13).
[Illustration: 14.--CHANTRY OF THE COUNTESS OF SALISBURY,
CHRISTCHURCH, HAMPSHIRE, FROM THE NORTH AISLE (CIR. 1529).]
[Illustration: PLATE V.
THE SALISBURY CHANTRY, CHRISTCHURCH.
VIEW FROM THE CHOIR.]
[Illustration: 15.--THE SALISBURY CHANTRY, CHRISTCHURCH. DETAIL OF
CARVING.]
[Illustration: 16.--PRIOR DRAPER'S CHANTRY, CHRISTCHURCH. HEAD OF
DOORWAY (1529).]
[Illustration: 17.--CHRISTCHURCH, HAMPSHIRE. MISERERE SEATS.]
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