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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 It followed the Perpendicular Style and, although superseded by the English Renaissance in domestic building of any pretensions to fashion, the Tudor style still retained its hold on English taste, portions of the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 Window s 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:

In domestic building:

In the 19th century a free mix of these late Gothic elements and Elizabethan were combined for hotels and railway stations, in revival styles known as Jacobethan and Tudorbethan .

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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