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ENGLISH RENAISSANCE. 565 Prismatic rustication, or the projection of blocks of stone of prismatic form (No. 250 g), occurs in pilasters and pedestals, and in later times colored stones were inserted in their stead Plaster (Nos. 242, 243 and 250 m) was used for ceilings with great skill in design and adaptability to the material, and broad friezes were sometimes modelled with much quaintness and grotesque feeling, as at Hardwick. Tapestries continued to be used for walls, color decoration making little or no progress. The screens, mantelpieces, entrance porches, monuments and tombs (No. 250 f), such as the monuments to Elizabeth (a.d. 1604) and Mary Queen of Scots in Westminster Abbey, and the tomb of Lord Burghley (No. 251 e), are very numerous and charac- teristic, a large number being found in churches throughout the country, and many being richly colored. The chapel screen from the Charterhouse, London (No. 251 c) ; the doorway in Broughton Castle (No. 251 a) ; the bookcase from Pembroke College, Cambridge (No. 251 d) ; the throne and stalls from the Convocation Room, Oxford (No. 251 f) ; the pulpit from North Cray Church, Kent (No. 251 g) ; the cistern now in the Victoria and Albert Museum (No. 251 h), and the tablet from Peterhouse College Chapel, Cambridge (No. 251 j), will indicate to the reader the manner in which Renaissance features were applied to the arts and crafts connected with architecture. 5. REFERENCE BOOKS. ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN. Clayton (J.). — A Collection of the Ancient Timber Edifices of England." Folio. 1846. Davie (W. G.). — " Old Cottages and Farmhouses in Kent and Sussex." 4to. I goo. Dawber (E. Guy). — " Old Cottages, Farmhouses, and other Stone Buildings in the Cotswold District " (Gloucestershire, etc.). 4to. 1904. Gotch (J . A.). — " Architecture of the Renaissance in England." 2 vols., folio. 1891-1894. Gotch (J. A.). — " Early Renaissance Architecture in England." igoi. Habershon (M.). — " The Ancient Half- Timbered Houses of England.'" Folio, 1836. Harrison (F.). — "Annals of an Old Manor House" (Sutton Place, Guildford). 4to. 1893. Nash (J.). — " Mansions of England in the Olden Time." 1839-1849. Parkinson and Ould. — " Old Cottages, Farmhouses, and other Half- timber Buildings of Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Cheshire." 4to. 1904. Richardson (C. J.). — " Studies from Old English Mansions." 1841-48. Richardson. — " Observations on the Architecture of England during the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I." 4to. 1837.