. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. of low and gloomy a])artments,overhanging each other, notwithstanding that they had fronts, which with the projectingwindows and the interstices were filled for nearly the whole space with glass. Fiy. 201 is arepresentation of Moreton Old Hall, Cheshire, built circa 1550-59, partly rebuilt 1602. 440. A better ide i of the architecture of this age cannot be obtained than by a noticeof the principal architects who have furnished materials for the tore
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. of low and gloomy a])artments,overhanging each other, notwithstanding that they had fronts, which with the projectingwindows and the interstices were filled for nearly the whole space with glass. Fiy. 201 is arepresentation of Moreton Old Hall, Cheshire, built circa 1550-59, partly rebuilt 1602. 440. A better ide i of the architecture of this age cannot be obtained than by a noticeof the principal architects who have furnished materials for the toregning observations ;for this purpose we shall refer to Walpoles Anecdotes A folio book of drawings,belonging to the Earl of Warwick in the time of VValpole, enabled him to bring tothe knowledge of the world, and pi rpetuate the memory of, an artist of no meanpowers, whose name, till that authors time, was almost buried in oblivion, and of Chap. III. ELIZABETHAN. 199 vvlioin little is still known, though his work contains memoranda relating to many princijial editices erected during t!ie reigns of Elizabeth, and James, her rig. 201. , Moreton Od Hall, Ch^ His name was John Thorpe; and at the sale of the library of the Hon. CharlesGreville in 1810, the MS. in (jiiestion came into tiie possession of the late Sir JohnSoane, Professor of Architecture to the lioval Academy. It is a folio, consisting otJ80 pages, wherein the plans, often without a scale, are nevertheless accurately of the subjects were merely designs for proposed mansions. The elevations areneatly drawn and shadowed. The general form of the plans is that of three sides of aquadrangle, the portico in the centre being an open arcade finished by a turreted cupola.\\lien the quadrangles are perfect, t\y;y are, for convenience, surrounded by an openoiridor. The windows, especially in the principal front, are large and lofty, and mostlyalternated wltli bows or projec
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