. Vanishing England . ns yard. The great noblemenand gentlemen of the Court were filled with the desire forextravagant display, and built such clumsy piles as Wolla-ton and Burghley House, importing French and Germanartisans to load them with bastard Italian Renaissancedetail. Some of these vast structures are not very admir-able with their distorted gables, their chaotic proportions,and their crazy imitations of classic orders. But the typi-cal Elizabethan mansion, whose builders means or goodtaste would not permit of such a profusion of these archi-tectural luxuries, is unequalled in its com
. Vanishing England . ns yard. The great noblemenand gentlemen of the Court were filled with the desire forextravagant display, and built such clumsy piles as Wolla-ton and Burghley House, importing French and Germanartisans to load them with bastard Italian Renaissancedetail. Some of these vast structures are not very admir-able with their distorted gables, their chaotic proportions,and their crazy imitations of classic orders. But the typi-cal Elizabethan mansion, whose builders means or goodtaste would not permit of such a profusion of these archi-tectural luxuries, is unequalled in its combination of state-liness with homeliness, in its expression of the manner oflife of the class for which it was built. And in the humblermanors and farm-houses the latter idea is even more per-fectly expressed, for houses were affected by the newfashions in architecture generally in proportion to theirsize. Holinshed tells of the increased use of stone or brickin his age in the district wherein he lived. In other parts. 3C. ?tit** .- ?» vupviffl| — r - -». V RIP ; •A. :. f S 5€i - • / f K
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