DOI Artikel:
Jones, Sydney R.: Haddon Hall: an old English home
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19430#0040
HADDON HALL
PLASTER OVERMANTEL IN BEDROOM
the details. In place of the simple forms of the earlier work, sunk pat-
terns, applied mouldings, and fluted pilasters surmounted by frieze and
cornice, were freely employed. The woodwork which covers the four
sides of the Long Gallery and the upright surfaces of the bays, imparts to
the walls an effect of great richness (p. 25). The design is intricate, and
is embellished with many mouldings and much carving. A series of pil-
asters with capitals, from which spring large and small semi-circular
arches, occur at regular intervals and give the main lines of the design.
Over the small arches the arms of Manners are carved on shields, the
boar’s head appears in relief on the frieze above, and the cornice is a
complex piece of work ornamented with battlements and turrets. The
elaborate design and finished workmanship of this panelling shew that the
thought in the minds of those who made it had travelled very far from
the ideas that prompted the oak decorations in the dining-room and the
Gothic screen in the great hall; and it is evident that a conscious striving
after effect had become the manner of the day, and had displaced those
earlier principles which, above all, made work sound in construction and
simple in design. Any weakness in the proportions and arrangement of
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PLASTER OVERMANTEL IN BEDROOM
the details. In place of the simple forms of the earlier work, sunk pat-
terns, applied mouldings, and fluted pilasters surmounted by frieze and
cornice, were freely employed. The woodwork which covers the four
sides of the Long Gallery and the upright surfaces of the bays, imparts to
the walls an effect of great richness (p. 25). The design is intricate, and
is embellished with many mouldings and much carving. A series of pil-
asters with capitals, from which spring large and small semi-circular
arches, occur at regular intervals and give the main lines of the design.
Over the small arches the arms of Manners are carved on shields, the
boar’s head appears in relief on the frieze above, and the cornice is a
complex piece of work ornamented with battlements and turrets. The
elaborate design and finished workmanship of this panelling shew that the
thought in the minds of those who made it had travelled very far from
the ideas that prompted the oak decorations in the dining-room and the
Gothic screen in the great hall; and it is evident that a conscious striving
after effect had become the manner of the day, and had displaced those
earlier principles which, above all, made work sound in construction and
simple in design. Any weakness in the proportions and arrangement of
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