GB Renaissance

• Elizabethan Characteristics - no new royal palaces, nor churches, but a boom in domestic houses due to redistribution of ecclesiastical lands
• Prodigy Houses - built with view to house Elizabeth and her large retinue for annual royal progress
• Great Hall - impressive entrance connecting various parts of the mansion
• Oriel Windows - window corbelled out of a wall
• Bay Windows - window of a protruded bay
• Long Gallery - connecting corridor, covered promenade, or a picture gallery
• Withdrawing Room - used by owners or guests where the could “withdraw” for more privacy
• Jacobean Characteristics - second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, names after James I of England (James VI of Scotland
• Jacobean Characteristics - owed much to detailed ornamentation by Flemish craftsmen
• Inigo Jones - first to Italianate Renaissance to England
• Sir Christopher Wren - known for designing 52 London Churches
• sash windows - panes divided by thin bars
• Georgian Characteristics - Named for the reigns of the first four King Georges of England
• Georgian Characteristics - stately English country mansions, London and Dublin terraced townhouse blocks, southern US plantation houses, and New England homes and college campuses
• Castle Howard - stately home of the Howards and one of the grandest private residences in Britain