. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Fig. 156.—House of Jacques Cceur at Bourges. leaded glass, lent the facades that singular charm pe-culiar to the Middle Ages. Often the exterior woodwork was chamfered, andchiselled into graceful bas-relief; but this treatmentwas mostly confined to the fifteenth century, orperiod just preceding the HOUSE OF JACQUES CCEUR, ETC. 373 In England we find much the same style of dwell-ing, and the half-timbered houses of Shrewsbury andChester resemble those of Lisieux (Plate LI I), whilein Germany this form of build
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Fig. 156.—House of Jacques Cceur at Bourges. leaded glass, lent the facades that singular charm pe-culiar to the Middle Ages. Often the exterior woodwork was chamfered, andchiselled into graceful bas-relief; but this treatmentwas mostly confined to the fifteenth century, orperiod just preceding the HOUSE OF JACQUES CCEUR, ETC. 373 In England we find much the same style of dwell-ing, and the half-timbered houses of Shrewsbury andChester resemble those of Lisieux (Plate LI I), whilein Germany this form of building became almost acraze. The houses of rich burgesses hold an importantposition in French civil architecture, and frequentlyoutsti-ip the seigneurial abodes of city a one may be seen at Bourges, in the house ofJacques Coeur (Fig. 156), the silversmith of CharlesVII. Few royal palaces of the time surpass thisbeautiful building, and those which do, excel it onlyin extent. Influential citizens like Jacques Cceur soon dis-covered their need of a town hall, a need apparentlyuniversal, for soon hotels de ville, or town halls, sprangup all over Europe, especially in Flanders and north-ern France. Ghent, Bruges, Brussels, Oudenarde,Louvain, and Ypres (Plate LIII) all contain fine exam-ples, splendid in extent, splendid in execution, eachcrowned by a giant belfry tower
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