Identifier: cu31924015352796 (find matches)
Title: The English house, how to judge its periods and styles
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862-
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture
Publisher: New York, J. Lane Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tshire, is a manor-houseof the fifteenth century, now being repaired ; andas it has long been neglected—modern Englanddoes not deserve to have historic memorials—Igive a picture drawn about sixty years ago, andshowing a noble-looking home, such as a modernarchitect might be inspired by. Here is ahouse in which people lived at their ease, undis-turbed by any thought of war (p. 136). Whatcould be better than those two oriel windows,with their tall elegance and their exquisitedetail ? There are gables, too, quite simpleand unaffected, yet varied and full of character.They have a more stately look than the fanci-ful gables which came into vogue during thesixteenth century, and were carried on by ourso-called Queen Anne style, not only beforethat queens time, but long after. Step-gables, it is true, may be found inEnglish Gothic work of the fifteenth century,when they were probably suggested by thecommon use of battlemented parapets for largecountry houses; but the finest Gothic gables
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The Gatehouse, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. Perpendicular Gothic. See page 142. LATER GOTHIC HOMES 141 are not broken by corbie-steps nor twisted intocurves; they have simple outlines, like those atGreat Chalfield. Their proportions vary a gooddeal, being regulated by the differing slope ofroofs. In the Norman style, for example, theangle formed by their apex is seldom muchmore acute than a right angle, while in EarlyEnglish work it is usually an equilateral triangle.This applies, at least in many cases, to laterGothic gables, but these are usually lower thanthirteenth-century examples. Moulded copingsare frequently employed, sometimes with anadditional set of mouldings below them ; andcrockets may run up the coping, or a finial beseen on the gables point. There seems tohave been little change in the general characterof gables from the thirteenth century to themaking of the first corbie-steps. Mouldingsdiffered, no doubt, in accordance with thespirit of Gothic architecture; and in theDecora

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