Early Renaissance Architecture in England / A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625

by J. Alfred Gotch

HADDON HALL, DERBYSHIRE.

THE LONG GALLERY.

Plate LXXVI.

ASTON HALL, WARWICKSHIRE.

THE LONG GALLERY (ABOUT 1635).

Although it is tolerably certain that Sir George Vernon had no such room as the long gallery, it is not quite clear that houses in his time were all without them, for at Hampton Court, in the time of Henry VIII. and Jane Seymour, there was the Queen's long gallery, which was 180 feet long by 25 feet wide, lighted on both sides, and having, like Haddon, three bay windows down one side, the middle one of which was not square but circular.[27] But although the palace had such an apartment, there is no evidence that the smaller houses in general possessed them until the time of Elizabeth, when they became of universal adoption.

[27]Law, Vol. I., p. 182.

Glazing.