Tudor Style architecture
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Kings College Chapel outside view |
The
Tudor Style in
English architecture 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Perpendicular style and, although superseded by the English Renaissance in domestic building of any pretensions to fashion, the Tudor style still retained its hold on English taste, portions of the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 and
Cambridge being still carried out in the Tudor style which overlaps with the first stirrings of the
Gothic Revival.
The four-centred 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.
In church architecture the principal examples are:
*
Henry VIIs Chapel at
Westminster (
1503)
*
Kings College Chapel, Cambridge
*
St Georges Chapel,
Windsor Castle*the old schools at Oxford.
In domestic building:
*
Eltham Palace,
Kent*
Oxburgh Hall,
Norfolk*
Kings College, Aberdeen*
Layer Marney Tower,
Essex*
East Barsham Manor,
Norfolk*
Fords Hospital,
Coventry.
*
Compton Wynyates*
Hampton Court Palace*
Montacute House (late Tudor)
In the 19th century a free mix of these late Gothic elements and Elizabethan were combined for hotels and railway stations, in revival styles known as
Jacobethan and
Tudorbethan.
Tudor style buildings have six distinctive features -
* Decorative
half-timbering* Steeply pitched roof
* Prominent cross
gables
* Tall, narrow windows
* Small window panes
* Large
chimneys, often topped with decorative chimney pots
*
Chester: Tudor and Mock Tudor Architecture.*
Tudorbethan architecture
