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TUDOR PERIOD

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUDOR

PERIOD  , in architecture, the later development of
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medieval architecture which followed the Perpendicular and, although superseded by the Elizabethan and the Renaissance styles, still retained its hold on
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English taste, portions of the additions to the various colleges of Oxford and Cambridge being still carried out in the Tudor style down to the
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middle of the 18th century . In church architecture the
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principal examples are Henry VII.'s
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Chapel at Westminster (1503), King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and St George's Chapel, Windsor; and the old
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schools at Oxford; and in domestic
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work, Eltham Palace, Kent; Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk; King's College, Aberdeen; Layer Marney Hall, Essex; the
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manor house at East Barsham, Norfolk; and Ford's Hospital, Coventry . It was a further debasement of the Perpendicular style, and the four-centred arch
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wai its principal feature; some of the most remarkable examples of the bow-window belong to this period; the
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mouldings are more spread out and the foliage becomes more natural .

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