BUILDINGS OF THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD 113 



FlG. 70. School at Witney, Oxfordshire, 1660. 



Another good example of the transitional stage between Jacobean 

 work and classic is the school at Witney, in Oxfordshire (Fig. 70). The 

 wings are still part of the main structure ; the windows are mullioned, 

 but the larger ones have an oval light in the uppermost compartment; 

 the chimneys have square detached shafts set angleways on their base. 

 All these are features of the earlier type. On the other hand, the 

 absence of gables, the widely projecting coved eaves, and small detached 

 dormers are characteristic of the new methods of design. The date 

 of the building, as stated on the panel over the principal door, is 

 1660. 



Of such houses as the farmhouse at Stanton Harcourt, in 

 Oxfordshire (Fig. 71), there are plenty of examples to be found. 

 Here the mullioned windows are still retained ; but the absence of 

 gables, the straight front, the marked cornice at the eaves, the hood 

 over the door, and the plain, severe outline are all in keeping with 

 the more pronounced classic treatment which was being gradually 

 adopted, even in remote places, by the end of the seventeenth 

 century. 



Such are some of the smaller houses built during the years in which 

 Inigo Jones and Webb were working ; links between the Jacobean style 

 and that purer version of Italian to which those eminent men devoted 

 themselves. 



