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SOME LATER JACOBEAN HOUSES 



FlG. 59. Gateway at Astwell, Northamptonshire, 1638. 



on classic architecture confined themselves largely to details, and 

 dealt but sparingly with the designs of entire buildings. At this 

 time, that is about 1637, there was probably no one who gave 

 himself up entirely to the pursuit of consistent purity of detail,, 

 except Jones and his pupil Webb. 



At Astwell, in Northamptonshire, there are the remains of 

 some gates dated 1638 which were fitted into an old Gothic 

 opening (Fig. 59). They have traceried heads of a sort, 

 in imitation of mediseval work, but the mouldings are allied 

 more nearly to the ordinary work of the time, and the whole 

 is an "interesting example of the mixture of old and new 

 ideas. 



Swakeleys, near Uxbridge, which carries its date, 1638, on 

 some of its rain-water heads, is a good example of late Jacobean 

 work, in which the old treatment is more apparent than the new 

 (Fig. 60). It has mullioned windows and many gables, but the 

 flat pediments which crown the latter are evidence of its having 

 been built towards the close of the Jacobean period. The actual 



