Tudor Style architecture
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The Tudor Style in English architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, for conservative college patrons. It followed the Perpendicular style and, although superseded by the English Renaissance in domestic building of any pretensions to fashion, the Tudor style still retained its hold on English taste, portions of the additions to the various colleges of Oxford and Cambridge being still carried out in the Tudor style which overlaps with the first stirrings of the Gothic Revival.
The four-centred arch was a defining feature; some of the most remarkable oriel windows belong to this period; the mouldings are more spread out and the foliage becomes more naturalistic. 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.
In church architecture the principal examples are:
- Henry VIIs Chapel at Westminster (1503)
- Kings College Chapel, Cambridge
- St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle
- the old schools at Oxford.
- Eltham Palace, Kent
- Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
- Kings College, Aberdeen
- Layer Marney Tower, Essex
- East Barsham Manor, Norfolk
- Fords Hospital, Coventry.
- Compton Wynyates
- Hampton Court Palace
- Montacute House (late Tudor)
Tudor style buildings have six distinctive features -
- Decorative half-timbering
- Steeply pitched roof
- Prominent cross gables
- Tall, narrow windows
- Small window panes
- Large chimneys, often topped with decorative chimney pots
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