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 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE. 561 Elizabethan Town Houses. — Many interesting specimens of these exist, and among them are several houses of half-timber construction, as, for example, in London, Staple Inn, Holborn, the Hall of Charterhouse, Sir Paul Pindar's House, Bishopsgate (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum), and many examples in Chester, and other of the country towns throughout England. 4. COMPARATIVE (see page 562). 5. REFERENCE BOOKS (see page 565). THE JACOBEAN STYLE. James 1. (a.d. 1603-1625). I. INFLUENCES (see page 545). 2. ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER. The Jacobean style was a development of the Elizabethan, gradually diverging from Gothic picturesqueness as classic literature and models became better known, and the use of the columns with their entablatures became more general. The celebrated architect, John Thorpe, erected several of the mansions of this epoch, and his book of " compositions," preserved in Sir John Soane's Museum, London, is well worthy of study. The buildings of this style were most suitable to the wants of the people in whose era they were erected. Some of the detail and ornamentation may be questionable, but they were at least the outcome of the social conditions of that age, and an examina- tion of the mansions erected during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, most of which are easily accessible, will give as much if not more pleasure than the study of the buildings of any other period of Architecture in England. Jacobean furniture design continued on the same lines as the architecture. 3. EXAMPLES. Examples of Some Famous Jacobean Mansions. Name. Date. Architect. Holland House, Kensington a.d. 1607. John Thorpe. (No. 244). Charlton House, Wilts. a.d. 1607. Bramshill, Hants (No. 250). a.d. 1607-1612. Hatfield House, Herts (Nos. a.d. 1611. 131 D, E, 241 and 249). o o