This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Tudor World

x
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Tudor World
Phone:
+44 1789 298070

Hours:
Sunday10:30am - 5:30pm
Monday10:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday10:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday10:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday10:30am - 5:30pm
Friday10:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday10:30am - 5:30pm


The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to England. It is generally not used to refer to the whole period of the Tudor dynasty , but to the style used in buildings of some prestige in the period roughly between 1500 and 1560. It followed the Late Gothic Perpendicular style and was superseded by Elizabethan architecture from about 1560 in domestic building of any pretensions to fashion. In the much more slow-moving styles of vernacular architecture Tudor has become a designation for styles like half-timbering that characterize the few buildings surviving from before 1485 and others from the Stuart period. In this form the Tudor style long retained its hold on English taste. Nevertheless, 'Tudor style' is an awkward style-designation, with its implied suggestions of continuity through the period of the Tudor dynasty and the misleading impression that there was a style break at the accession of Stuart James I in 1603. The low Tudor arch was a defining feature. Some of the most remarkable oriel windows belong to this period. Mouldings are more spread out and the foliage becomes more naturalistic. During the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, many Italian artists arrived in England; their decorative features can be seen at Hampton Court Palace, Layer Marney Tower, Sutton Place, and elsewhere. However, in the following reign of Elizabeth I, the influence of Northern Mannerism, mainly derived from books, was greater. Courtiers and other wealthy Elizabethans competed to build prodigy houses that proclaimed their status. The Dissolution of the Monasteries redistributed large amounts of land to the wealthy, resulting in a secular building boom, as well as a source of stone. The building of churches had already slowed somewhat before the English Reformation, after a great boom in the previous century, but was brought to a nearly complete stop by the Reformation. Civic and university buildings became steadily more numerous in the period, which saw general increasing prosperity. Brick was something of an exotic and expensive rarity at the beginning of the period, but during it became very widely used in many parts of England, even for modest buildings, gradually restricting traditional methods such as wood framed daub and wattle and half-timbering to the lower classes by the end of the period. Scotland was a different country throughout the period, and is not covered here, but early Renaissance architecture in Scotland was influenced by close contacts between the French and Scottish courts, and there are a number of buildings from before 1560 that show a more thorough adoption of continental Renaissance styles than their English equivalents.
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Attraction Location



Tudor World Videos

Shares

x

More Attractions in Stratford Upon Avon

x

Menu