. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. gned to a merited oblivion. We fear our warning voice willdo little to suppress the rage till its cycle is completed. We have, in the prolongation ofthe subject, sacrificed our own feelings to the rage in the present day for designs of thisclass, and have assigned to it a far longer descriiition than it deserves. The wretchedcockney imitations of it iJerjietrated for retired shoi)keei)ers in the insignificant villas of thesuburbs of the metropolis,
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. gned to a merited oblivion. We fear our warning voice willdo little to suppress the rage till its cycle is completed. We have, in the prolongation ofthe subject, sacrificed our own feelings to the rage in the present day for designs of thisclass, and have assigned to it a far longer descriiition than it deserves. The wretchedcockney imitations of it iJerjietrated for retired shoi)keei)ers in the insignificant villas of thesuburbs of the metropolis, and occasionally for the amusement of country gentlemen alittle more distant, as well as the use of what is called Gothic, appear to us in no otherlight than mockeries of a style which is repudiated by the maimers of the nineteenth century,ihe style called Elizabethan we consider (juite as unworthy of imitation as would be theadoption in the present day of the model of the shi])s of war, with their unvvieldly and lop-heavy ])oops, which encountered the Armada, in iireference to the beautiful and compactform of a well moulded modern 1- ig. 2U4. Sect. VII. JAMKS I. TO ANNE. 4,)1. The first of the reigns that heads this section has, in some measure, been anticipatedm our notice of Elizabethan architecture, which it was impossible to keep altogether distinct ClIAl-. III. JAMES I. TO ANNE. 205 from tlie following reign. The angular and circular bay windows now disappeared entirely,and were sujjplanted by large square ones, of very large dimensions in tbeir height,unequally divided by transoms, and placed in lengthened rows, so as to form leadingfeatures in the several stories of the building. Battlements were now entirely omitted,and the general effect of the pile became one of massive solidity, broken by a square turretloftier than those at the angles. The houses built in the reign of James I. are deficient inthe picturesque beauty found in those of his predecessors. ^lan
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