The Tudor Style

What’s the style?

 The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, for conservative college patrons. It followed the Perpendicular style and, although superseded by Elizabethan architecture in domestic building of any pretensions to fashion, the Tudor style still retained its hold on English taste, portions of the additions to the various colleges of Oxford University and Cambridge University being still carried out in the Tudor style which overlaps with the first stirrings of the Gothic Revival.

The Features

 The four-centered arch, now known as the Tudor arch, was a defining feature; some of the most remarkable oriel windows belong to this period; the mouldings are more spread out and the foliage becomes more naturalistic.  Nevertheless, "Tudor style" is an awkward style-designation, with its implied suggestions of continuity through the period of the Tudor dynasty and the misleading impression that there was a style break at the accession of Stuart James I in 1603.

Examples of Tudor architecture are :

Hampton Court Palace Longleat House in Wiltshire Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire

Hampton Court Palace

Longleat House in Wiltshire

Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire

Tudor style buildings have six most distinctive features -

      Decorative half-timbering Steeply pitched roof Prominent cross gables Tall, narrow doors and windows Small window panes Large chimneys, often topped with decorative chimney pots

As a modern term.

 In the 19th century a free mix of these late Gothic elements and Elizabethan were combined for hotels and railway stations, as well as modern residential styles in what is usually referred to as Tudor (or sometimes Mock Tudor styles known as Jacobethan or a more rustic Tudor Revival architecture).

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Infotmacje tekstowe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_architecture Obrazy: http://www.evanevanstours.co.uk/hampton-court.htm

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