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the later development of See also:medieval architecture which followed the Perpendicular and, although superseded by the Elizabethan and the See also:Renaissance styles, still retained its hold on See also:English See also:taste, portions of the additions to the various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

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