Identifier: sussexarchaeolog54suss (find matches)
Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e similar ini>lan; the great watching chamber and the great chambert Cowdray are similar in position. 1537 is the date of•Jueen Jane Seymours lying in12 and death at Hampton.vourt. See Lord Southamptons letter informing Crom-well of the former event. \ The artist who carved the groining at Cowdray may?>e considered as a designer of originality and refinement, nd he has left behind him a monument of singular )eauty. The happy survival of the porch preserves evidence>f sumptuous architectural beauty in domestic archi-.ecture, and a skilled handling of Gothic constructionjvhich cannot be equalled even at Hampton Court. Thelesigner seems to have thoroughly assimilated the newdecorative ideas of Italy, but has left the porch still I 12 A letter to Cromwell from the Earl of Southampton states that she took toI er chamber September 16th, 1537, with all ceremonies appertaining to the retire-ment of an English Queen in her situation.—Record Office State Papers, Vol. I.,i>. 565.
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THE PORCH AT COWDRAY. 123 constructionally Gothic. If you compare it with theBishop Fox chantry at Winchester or the MargaretSalisbury Plantagenet chantry at Christ Church, Hamp-shire, the true Gothic of the groining will be under-stood. The decorative features which play so pleasant a partin the flowing lines, the treatment of the acanthus leaf,both as engaged leaves and in the large bosses, suggestclassical ideas assimilated by a craftsman brought up ina school where Gothic principles dominated. Theworking in of the oak leaf in many fanciful ways withthe pomegranate as a centre, shows the old craftsmanwho has worked for many years under Catharine ofAragon. The most original feature of the porch is theuse of the brattishing, which, without injuring generaleffect, has a double inverted scroll, a Renaissance featurewhich in time killed all the flowing lines of Gothicarchitecture. The amorini are of the simplest form ofcherub, and seemed to have been put in as a merefashionable decorati

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