ELIZ’A BE THAN ARCHITECTURE

a style of architecture which prevailed in England during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. It succeeded to the Tudor style, properly so called, with which it is sometimes confounded. The Elizabeth an is a mixture of inferior Gothic and debased Italian, producing a singular heterogeneousne in detail, with, however, wonderful picturesquene in general effect, and domestic accommodation more in accordance with the wants of an advancing civilization than was afforded by the styles which preceded it. The chief characteristics of Elizabeth an architecture are: windows of great size both in the plane of the wall and deeply embayed, ceilings very richly decorated in relief, galleries of great length, very tall end highly decorated chimneys, as well as a profuse use of ornamental strap work in the parapets, window-heads, . The Elizabeth an style is the last stage of the Tudor or Perpendicular, and from its corresponding in point of period with the Kenai ance of the Continent has sometimes been called the English Renai ance. The epithet Jacobean has go me times been given to the very latest stage of the Elizabeth an, differing from the Elizabeth an proper in showing a greater admixture of debased Italian forms. The princely houses which arose during the reign of Elizabeth are numerous, and many even yet remain to attest the splendour of the time. Of these may be mentioned Burghley House, Hardwick Hall, and Bramhall Hall.— Cf. Gotch and Brown, Architecture of the Renai ance in England.