PLANTAGENET CASTLE-MANSIONS. After the palace at Windsor had been changed into a new style of domestic architecture, by Edward III., it soon became an object of imitation among the different branches of the nobles and prelates throughout England; and from this prototype was produced the magnificent mansions of Spafford and Naworth, in Cumberland, and to these venerable mansions again succeeded, in the following reigns, that of Knowle and Cowdry, the castellated and turretted edifices of Bolton Abbey, in Yorkshire, and the more superb pile of Alnwick, and afterwards that of Hirstmonçeaux, in Sussex. In the reign of Henry VI. the towers at the gateways were battlemented, but polygonal and lofty; that of Oxburgh-hall, in Norfolk, being six stories high. The tower of Tattershall castle, in Lincolnshire, is both battlemented and machicolated. The architectural ornaments in these castellated mansions now became more generally adopted, as may be seen at Castor-hall, in Norfolk, where the doorways and windows are finished in accordance with the enriched and grotesque style of the age; in connexion with which may be noticed another remarkable epoch in architecture, during the reign of Henry VI.,-that of the introduction of elegant groups of chimneys, whose shafts were beautiful, and highly ornamented, like lacework, in a variety of curious devices, as those at Eaton College, which are still to be seen. Nether-hall, Essex, West Stow-hall, Suffolk, and East Barham-hall, Norfolk, illustrate the age of Henry VII.* The residences of noblemen, however, up to this period, still continued, from the love of ostentation, to be battlemented,† and encircled with moats; but the multitude of turrets, of various forms and designs, had completely changed their warlike character; while the love of ornament went on increasing, till the enriched monastic Gothic adorned the most prominent features; even the decoration of chimney-shafts, in the end, was carried to an extreme as may still be seen in a beautiful group, consisting of ten, in the last-mentioned edifice.‡ These castellated mansions were always built to surround one or two quadrangular courts, in the monastic or eastern manner; the circumference of the first, when there were two, being always occupied by the offices and servants' rooms; that of the second, by the principal or state apartments, and the chapel. Regular quadrangular houses, turretted, and not castellated, were sometimes built during the above reign; but it was under Henry the Seventh that this superior style of domestic architecture became universal.§ The quadrangular form, as well for security and convenience, as in imitation of the conventual houses, which were always constructed upon this model, was generally preferred, * Bloomfield's Norfolk, vol. iii. + The almost continual state of warfare in which the great chiefs were engaged, and the long contention between the houses of York and Lancaster, had at length destroyed many of the most ancient of the nobility, and at the same time brought about a very great change in the landed property of the kingdom. When Henry VII. attained the crown, his laws against engaging retainers greatly lessened the grandeur of the barons; the statutes admitting the sale of their estates, together with the increasing luxuries of the times, completed the annihilation of their former exorbitant power; and the younger branches of many noble families, whose fortunes were unequal to support them in a more exalted situation, embraced the opportunity afforded by trade to increase their patrimony. Commerce was encouraged, from political motives, by the monarch, who thereby created a new class of subjects, forming a balance to the power of the nobles, and by that means laid the foundation of a more equal distribution of wealth; much of which was anxiously applied to the decorations of the newly-erected mansions, which it was no longer necessary to obtain a licence from the king to build. This important change in society gave rise to the many country residences which now appear in England, a source of so much gratification to our national pride. A very interesting example of a bay-window of the age of Henry VI. is still to be seen in a house near the Globe Tavern, at Exeter. (See an engraving of it in the Rev. George Oliver's History of the Churches in Devonshire, published by Mr. Featherstone, taken from a drawing by the author of this work.) Crosby-hall, in London, is also of this period. (See Pennant's History of London.) § Archæologia, vol. iii. even where the dwelling-house, as, indeed, was usual, only took up one side; the remaining three contained the offices and farm-buildings with communication: several very old parsonage-houses appear to have been built in this manner.* Even from the time of Edward III., there certainly existed mansions not completely castellated,+ but those remaining, now habitable, are so few that a perfect one would be with difficulty discovered. We shall merely mention, as conspicuous for their preservation, (though having undergone some considerable alterations,) those of Bramhall in Cheshire, Hampton Court in Herefordshire, Lypiate in Gloucestershire, and Witham in Berkshire, all in the hands of possessors who are not insensible to the peculiar beauties of these rare and venerable models of early taste. ANCIENT TOWN-HOUSES. The town-houses during the middle ages, numbers of which are still existing in our old municipal boroughs, were very picturesque, and of peculiar construction, being formed chiefly of timber, and their stories overhanging each other as they rose upwards, a form observed in every period of their history. Though not certainly the best devised for the health of the inhabitants, yet nothing could be better calculated for giving endurance to the perishable materials, of which they were composed, than the protection each overhanging story gave to that below it. Oak was chosen for the purpose, which was framed together by mortice and tenon, and the space between the frame-work filled with clay and chopped straw, and afterwards plastered over, the frame-work being left to appear, which gave them a picturesque effect. The whole fabric generally rested on a stone foundation, about three feet from the ground. "The cities of St. Albans and of Coventry still abound in ancient domestic architecture; some of the houses of the latter city are even as old as the fifteenth century, having projecting stories, forming a most interesting subject for the artist and the antiquary, from the abundance of carved vine-foliage, grapes, lizards, and nondescript animals, with which their eve-boards, window-sills, and corbelled brackets are charged."§ Among others, one situated in Crosscheaping, had, until lately, the door ornamented with the figures of St. George and St. Michael. Mr. Pennant remarks that the streets of Coventry were very arrow, and that the city contained very ancient buildings, the stories of which in some, impended one over the other, in such a manner as nearly to meet at the top, whereby they intercepted both sunshine and air from the streets below, and excluded the light of the sky.|| There is a fine specimen of early municipal * Bloomfield's Norfolk, vol. iii. + The larger castellated and turreted mansions were generally erected by men of great estates, principally during the Lancastrian period, or reign of Henry VI. : very few now existing, if any, can be traced higher, for such has been the effects of time, still more through the advance or decline of families, and the progress of architectural improvements, and the natural decay of those buildings, that I should conceive it difficult to name an entire house in England still inhabited by a nobleman, and not belonging to the absolute order of castles, the principal apartments of which are older than even the reign of Henry VII., the instances, at least, would be extremely few. 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