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NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
1. Essay XLV, 'Of Building'.
2. The Plan of Charleval, however, is worth studying in connexion with
Audley End.
3. This screen is related to the one at Knole, Kent (c. 1605), and to much earlier
screens such as that of the Middle Temple Hall (c. 1570). There is a whole family
of Elizabethan-Jacobean screens, the prototype of which may have been the hall
screen in old Somerset House or even a screen at Nonsuch. The Audley End
screen is a good example of the persistence of motifs which we know to have
existed in the Nonsuch decorations -- e.g. the cipher-and-square and square-in-
square panels, the panel containing an arch in perspective (such a panel, from
Nonsuch, exists at Loseley) and the terms with protruding feet.
4. Syon House, Middlesex, remodelled by the same Earl of Northampton,
will have been another of this group of houses. Here is preserved an estate map
signed by Moses Glover, ' painter and architeckter', 1635, and this has given rise
to the suggestion that Glover was the architect of this and Northumberland
House.
5. The placing of narrow towers in the centres of the long and short elevations
of a house goes back to Smythson's Worksop which, as a very famous and in-
fluential house, may be the point of departure of this theme.
6. 'Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces
of the poets' wrote Bacon.
7. The relationship has been regarded as uncertain, but in Robert Smythson's
will, in the York Registry, his principal legatee and executor is his son John.
8. The Long Gallery is a peculiarly English feature. There were, as we have
seen (p. 3), early Tudor prototypes at Richmond, Thornbury, and Whitehall,
but it is probable that the Galerie François Ier at Fontainebleau had a more
decisive influence, possibly through Nonsuch.
9. The open staircase seems to have taken its origin in Spain at the beginning
of the sixteenth century ( N. Pevsner, Outline of European Architecture, 2nd ed.,
1945, pp. 151-3), but nobody has yet traced a connexion between the Spanish
and the much later English types.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830. Contributors: John Summerson - author. Publisher: Penguin Books. Place of Publication: Baltimore, MD. Publication Year: 1954. Page Number: 55.
    
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