136 



EARLIEST RECORDED SASH-WINDOW 



above occurs in the accounts for work done at Windsor Castle in 

 1686-88 : : 



Sarah Wyatt for a Sash Window and Frame with Weights Lynes and Pullyes 

 and a Wainscott Window-board done in the Governor of the Castles 

 Secretaryes office - 70* 



The kind of panelling which covered the walls of Jacobean houses 

 was retained in the houses of less importance till about the middle of 

 the century, but there was a tendency for the panels to grow larger. 

 Inigo Jones and Webb generally used large panels, and discarded the 



FIG. 92. A Chimney-Piece for the Queen's House, Greenwich, by Inigo Jones. 



From a Drawing in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection at the R.I.B.A. 



small oblongs still favoured by local joiners. In the detail of wood- 

 work generally greater refinement and simplicity became apparent, and 

 more successful endeavours were made to adapt classic profiles. At 

 St John's College, Oxford, the work of 1631 illustrates this tendency 

 (Fig. 89). The wood chimney-pieces in the same building are also 

 handled with more restraint than in earlier examples, and a similar 

 kind of treatment marks the fine chimney-piece in the Jerusalem 

 Chamber at Westminster (Fig. 90), which must have been the work of 

 John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, who was Dean of Westminster 



1 "Windsor Castle," by Sir W. H. St John Hope, p. 329. 



