Tudor architecture
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The Tudor architectural style is the term for English architecture in the Tudor period. This was a time of architectural transition, as the Gothic Perpendicular style was gradually replaced by a Renai
Athelhampton House - built 1493–1550, early in the period
Hardwick Hall, an Elizabethan prodigy house
The gatehouse of Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
Richmond Palace, west front, drawn by Antony Wyngaerde in 1562
Elizabethan architecture
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Elizabethan architecture refers to buildings in a local style of Renaissance architecture built during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England from 1558 to 1603. The style is very largely confined t
Tudor architecture
…Renaissance forms was a shift from religious to secular architecture, due to the impact of the English Reformation. A subtype of Tudor architecture is Elizabethan architecture, from about 1560 to 1600, which has continuity with the subsequent Jacobean architecture in the early Stuart period. The low pointed Tudor arch was…
English Renaissance: Hardwick Hall (1590–1597), a classic prodigy house. The numerous and large mullioned windows are typically English Renaissance, while the loggia is Italian.
Burghley House, completed in 1587
Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, England, completed in 1588 for Sir Francis Willoughby by the Elizabethan architect Robert Smythson
Microcosm of London Plate 094 Westminster Hall edited