If they appear in earlier buildings caution would have
to be exercised to ascertain whether they were not later insertions.
Anyone who can settle this point would render a singular service in the
byways of architectural history. The instance mentioned above occurs
in the accounts for work done at Windsor Castle in 1686–88:--[45]
Sarah Wyatt for a Sash Window and Frame with Weights Lynes and
Pullyes and a Wainscott Window-board done in the Governor of the
Castles Secretaryes office 70^s
[Illustration: FIG. 89.--ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, OXFORD.
THE PRESIDENT’S DRAWING-ROOM.
Henry Tanner, _del._]
[Illustration: FIG. 90.--Chimney-Piece in the Jerusalem
Chamber, Westminster.]
[Illustration: FIG. 91.--A Chimney-Piece for the Queen’s
House, Greenwich, 1619, by Inigo Jones.
From a Drawing in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection at the
R.I.B.A.]
[Illustration: FIG. 92.--A Chimney-Piece for the Queen’s
House, Greenwich, by Inigo Jones.
From a Drawing in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection at the
R.I.B.A.]
The kind of panelling which covered the walls of Jacobean houses was
retained in the houses of less importance till about the middle of the
century, but there was a tendency for the panels to grow larger. Inigo
Jones and Webb generally used large panels, and discarded the small
oblongs still favoured by local joiners. In the detail of woodwork
generally greater refinement and simplicity became apparent, and more
successful endeavours were made to adapt classic profiles. At St John’s
College, Oxford, the work of 1631 illustrates this tendency (Fig. 89).
The wood chimney-pieces in the same building are also handled with more
restraint than in earlier examples, and a similar kind of treatment
marks the fine chimney-piece in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster
(Fig. 90), which must have been the work of John Williams, Bishop of
Lincoln, who was Dean of Westminster during a large part of the
reign of Charles I. The excellent panelling by Webb at Thorpe Hall has
already been illustrated (see Fig. 48). It embodies a still greater
departure from the old manner.
[Illustration: FIG. 93.--A Chimney-Piece for “D^{rs} Price his
Great Chamber,” by Webb.]
[Illustration: FIG. 94.--Chimney-Piece at Drayton, by Webb.
From the Burlington-Devonshire Collection.]
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