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	Tudor Artisans - Leaded Glass, Limestone, Tudor Doors, Entrances, Tudor Fireplaces, Hardware, Tudor Design, Restoration
		Tudor architectural elements are comprised of natural, heavy materials that fit quite naturally into the landscape.
		Tudor architecture was a derived form of gothic architecture where many of the same design characteristics exist: changeablility, asymetry, and artistic hand-crafted ornament like wood/stone carvings, painted leaded glass, etc. Tudor architecture, like gothic architecture also both mean high quality, natural materials that seem to be an extension of the earth itself.
		Both Tudor period architecture and gothic architecture permit the interior functionality to take priority over the exterior symetry and sensibility.
	www.tudorartisans.com (392 words)

	Tudor - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Tudor, name of the dynasty that occupied the throne of England from 1485 to 1603.
		Tudor Style, in English art and architecture, designation for the period covering the reigns of the Tudor monarchs.
		Tudor Pavers are a South Australian Manufacturer of Concrete masonary pavers.Extensive range of...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Tudor.html (197 words)

	Tudor - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tudor, name of the dynasty that occupied the throne of England from 1485 to 1603.
		Tudor Style, in English art, designation for the period covering the reigns of the Tudor monarchs.
		The Tudor period began with the accession of...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Tudor.html (145 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tudor style (Architecture) - Encyclopedia
		Tudor style, descriptive of the English architecture and decoration of the first half of the 16th cent., prevailing during the reigns (1485–1558) of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I. It is the first of the transitional styles between Gothic Perpendicular and Palladian architecture, the other two being Elizabethan and Jacobean.
		The rise of new trading families to wealth and the enrichment of court favorites by Henry VIII with lands and riches derived from his suppression of monasteries resulted in the building of many manor houses.
		Principal Tudor examples are parts of Hampton Court Palace, begun in 1515, and many colleges of Oxford and Cambridge.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Tudorsty.html (367 words)

	Tudor Furniture, English Tudor Style Furniture
		The tudor period in English history begins with the ascent to the throne of King Henry VII in 1485, this event signifying the end of the Middle Ages in Britain and supposedly the historic beginning of the English Renaissance.
		Tudor interiors, in contrast to the lack of grace and quantity in furniture, were often beautifully decorated with tapestries, embroidery, carpets, and fabrics.
		To summarise, the early tudor period in England before the Elizabethan age was, in matters of furniture and interior design, mostly part of the gothic tradition only changed somewhat by incipient continental ideas flowing across the channel in very small waves and by new wood crafting knowledge.
	www.furniturestyles.net /european/english/tudor.html (524 words)

	Residential Design Guide \| Tudor Style
		The Tudor style is based on English homes that were built near the end of the medieval period, from the late 15th century to shortly after the turn of the 17th century.
		The style is named for the Tudor family, which ruled England during that time, and Tudor home exteriors are typified by half-timbered stucco walls, steep roofs with cross gables, and turrets.
		Tudor style homes are, by design, meant to look quite different from standard construction homes, including the extensive use of stucco, brick, and wood trim, all of which are more expensive and time-consuming materials to work with.
	residentialdesignguide.com /tudor_style.html (582 words)

	Tudor house plans and House plans - Design Evolutions Inc., GA
		Tudor house plans and architecture are flexible and easily adapt to its surroundings.
		The tudor house plans of centuries ago were true half-timbering houses where the timber was the structural support extending through the walls.
		Characteristics of tudor house plans includes: Steeply pitched gables and roof (slate or thatch covered), bays of windows (usually casement) having diamond-paned leaded glass, clustered chimney stacks of fascinating design, and the half-timbered and stuccoed facades with brick and/ or stone accents and finishes.
	www.designevolutions.com /architecturalstyles/Tudorhouseplans.html (312 words)

	Tudor style - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tudor style was originally that of the English architecture and decorative arts produced under the Tudor dynasty that ruled England from 1485 to 1603.
		Real estate speculators and builders picked up the designation in the late 19th century, to characterize picturesquely massed brick houses with tall dormer windows in steeply-pitched slate roofs, and flat "Tudor" arches, thought to imitate houses built during the Tudor period.
		In New York's "Tudor City" (1925 - 1928), the revival degenerated into a few design mannerisms applied to high-rise apartment houses, including "Hardwick Hall", an "Elizabethan" penthouse.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Tudor_style (153 words)

	Tudor Revival
		The Tudor was also the style nationally in the 1920s, and because it was among the first styles to have detached garages, it is often considered the "automobile house".
		The Tudor made its way to America in the 1890s but didn't take off until after World War I. It was the popularity of the automobile that jumpstarted the Tudor boom in the 1920s.
		Nationally, the Tudor style is considered masculine and so associated with financial achievement and conservative taste that it was dubbed the "Stockbroker Tudor".
	members.tripod.com /~westheight/tudor_revival.htm (1750 words)

	health-Tudor Style- Tudor Revival Houses in America from 1890 to the Present
		In the tradition of the Bungalow series, here is a marvelous celebration of the twentieth century's most delightful and whimsical architectural style Storybook Style, the rambunctious evocation of medieval Europe in American housing, was born in the early 1920s and almost forgo...
		Regional styles of old homes in all parts of the country have captured the imagination of homebuyers who are disillusioned with the cookie-cutter sameness...
		Tudor Style gives an excellent overview of the English Tudor influence on architecture in the United States.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_health/A_tudor_style_tudor_re-0789307936.htm (934 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Before renovating, know home's style
		But once you have determined the predominant style of your home, the next decision is whether to revive and enhance it or to change it into something else.
		The Tudor style was brought back into favor by industrial magnates who aspired to aristocratic pretensions.
		The Tudor Revival is an expensive style to execute properly due to costly roof design and more expensive wall materials and detailing.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600159188,00.html (551 words)

	Melton Carnegie Museum Tudor Workshop 3 - Tudor Style - Tudor Fashion
		Range of reproduction Tudor clothes, as worn by males and females, camera and film, worksheet relating to specialised Tudor clothing terms.
		Take photographs of children in their 'Tudor' costumes (and before they have changed out of their present-day costumes) to help with their descriptive follow-up work at school.
		Encourage the children to take part in role-play exercises whilst dressed in their costumes to reinforce the fact that certain types of Tudor clothes were worn by certain types of people, according to their work and their role in society.
	www.leics.gov.uk /index/community/museums/melton_carnegie/melton_carnegie_museum_teachers/melton_carnegie_museum_tudor_fashion.htm (313 words)

	Tudor Style Architecture
		The eclecticism comes in the form of peripheral "eddies" to this mainstream, styles not popular enough to make much of a dent in the overwhelming preference for Colonial Revival, but by the same token, the choice of many upper and upper-middle class owners who eschewed the Colonial Revival perhaps because it was mainstream.
		The fact is, the predominant architectural style of the Tudor period was Jacobean.
		In today's eclectic mix of housing styles, Tudor is limited mostly to larger homes in that its masonry masses and wealth of stylistic details do not lend itself easily to homes on a more modest scale.
	www.humanitiesweb.org /human.php?s=h&p=a&a=i&ID=965 (651 words)

	Old House Style Guide
		Each style has a picture of a local building and a description of special characteristics of the style.
		The Craftsman style, of which Bungalows are a subset, is characterized by simplicity and lack of the fanciful ornamentation one finds in Victorian homes.
		This style became wildly popular at the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s.
	www.cmhpf.org /kids/Guideboox/OldHouseGuide.html (588 words)

	Historic Styles \| Tudor 1890-1940
		The Tudor style fell out of popularity around World War II when a resurgence of patriotism encouraged an appreciation for a more American style, that is, Colonial Revival.
		One of the best examples of a Tudor style house in Montgomery County, Maryland, is the landmark Newlands/Corby Mansion in Chevy Chase at the juncture of Chevy Chase Circle, Connecticut Avenue, and Brookville Road.
		The most prevalent building material for American Tudors was brick, frequently laid out in an elaborate pattern on the first story with a second story of stucco or wood and false half-timbering in a decorative pattern.
	www.wentworthstudio.com /histstyles/tudor.html (873 words)

	Tudor Houses, Tudor Homes & Architecture
		During this period there was a growing demand for houses for the new and wealthy trading families, which in the reign of Henry VII were taking the place of the old nobility, many of whom had disappeared during the Wars of the Roses, between the years 1455 and 1485.
		The Tudor Manor house of the sixteenth century was a continuance of the fifteenth century type ; the rooms were grouped round a quadrangular court, as at Compton Wynyates (Warwickshire) and Sutton Place (Guildford).
		It is very difficult to trace authentic examples of the Tudor furniture of this period, but there are notable exceptions with regard to that appertaining to some of the churches, which are often still found in a good state of preservation, such as the choir stalls of Christchurch, Hampshire.
	www.furniturestyles.net /european/english/homes/007-tudor.htm (968 words)

	Architectural Style : Tudor and Elizabethan
		The Perpendicular style had already broken away from the European mainstream of late Gothic.
		In Tudor times it developed fan vaulting, for example in the cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral and Henry VII's magnificent Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey.
		Tudor and Elizabethan styles enjoyed a revival in the Victorian period.
	www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Style/Tudor.htm (504 words)

	The Suburban Dream in Midtown - September 22, 2006 - The New York Sun
		Tudor City's buildings are closely packed, and they aren't "towers in a park" but towers with a park.
		The façades of Tudor City's buildings are finely detailed with Tudor arches, terra cotta ornamentation, patterns of contrasting red brick and white plaster, spiky finials, and windows of multiple small panes.
		The Tudor style may have gained popularity through its use in the upper-class resort community of Tuxedo Park in Orange County, New York, but the style probably became the momentarily most popular one for suburban houses when Grosvenor Atterbury chose Tudor as the defining style of Forest Hills Gardens in Queens.
	www.nysun.com /article/40214 (682 words)

	Tudor Style: artsparx home improvement style archive
		The unmistakable "fl-and-white" Tudor house, with its massive dark timbers, reinforcing diagonal beams, and whitewashed plaster, is the period's design archetype.
		Tudor furniture, in keeping with the new aesthetic of permanence, is heavy, carved wood.
		Built-in cupboards were essential to the Tudor home, along with hinged storage benches, canopied bedsteads with curtains and carved headboards.
	www.artsparx.com /tudorstyle.asp (0 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Before renovating, know home's style
		Not every home was designed in a distinct style, and often a home has elements of several different styles.
		The style is accented on the outside with decorative half-timbering, patterned brick work, stucco or stone.
		In the end, both the streetscape and overall Tudor style were preserved.
	www.deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600159188,00.html (551 words)

	Morbid Outlook - Tudor Fashion
		Tudor fashion in England consisted of many style variations over a period of about 100 years.
		While the style best known is personified by Henry VIII and his many wives, the styles worn in the time of Henry’s father, Henry VII, and his daughters Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I must also be considered as part of the Tudor fashion period.
		Spanish style was introduced to the court when Katharine of Aragon married Henry’s brother Arthur in 1501.
	www.morbidoutlook.com /fashion/historical/1999_00_tudor.html (1851 words)

	Buy Tudor Style: Tudor Revival Houses in America from 1890 to the Present by Lee Goff - Shop Online
		Tudor Style: Tudor Revival Houses in America from 1890 to the Present
		I was very interested to see the modern tudor style houses that have been built in the USA like the one shown on the cover.
		The modern Tudor section is dominated by one very large McMansion with mock Tudor references.
	www.mircscripts.com /shop/0789307936/Tudor_Style_Tudor_Revival_Houses_in_America_from_1890_to_the_Present.html (279 words)

	Southern Accents: Tudor Revival
		In the 19th century, having fallen for the style's inherent romanticism and craftsmanship, Victorian poet and designer William Morris, among others, helped spark an English revival in the vernacular style.
		"Tudor style became popular in America as a means of suggesting ancestral ties to England," explains Good.
		Visits to the English countryside fed the Roggios' infatuation with Tudor style, which actually began amid the stately old Tudor manors of Main Line and Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia.
	www.southernaccents.com /accents/homes/architecture/article/0,14743,697799,00.html (578 words)

	Tudor Homes: Going medieval in style - Jul. 25, 2006
		Tudor homes are based on the architecture of England at the end of medieval times.
		The style evolved during the late 15th century and lasted until shortly after the turn of the 17th century.
		The Tudors were the ruling dynasty at the time and members of the family included some of the most famous monarchs in English history.
	money.cnn.com /2006/07/25/real_estate/tudor_style/index.htm (983 words)

	Tudor
		In authentic Tudor construction, the actual timber framework of the building is left exposed, and the spaces between the timbers are filled or "nogged" with brickwork and often covered with white stucco.
		The popular name of "Tudor Revival" for this style is a misnomer, since relatively few examples resemble the transitional medieval-to-Renaissance designs of England's Tudor period (1500s).
		When the Tudor wave began in America, it was actually a Medieval Revival style derived from prototypes that ranged from humble thatched-roof folk cottages to grand manor houses.
	www.searchingforahouse.com /tudor.html (225 words)

	tudor style architecture virtual valerie 2
		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.
		This architecture style was popular in the 1920s and 1930s and continues to be a mainstay in...
		A subtype of the Tudor Revival style is the Cotswold Cottage.
	www.seek4all.net /tudor_style_architecture.html (289 words)

	Tudor style — Infoplease.com
		Tudor style, descriptive of the English architecture and decoration of the first half of the 16th cent., prevailing during the reigns (1485–1558) of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I. It is the first of the transitional styles between Gothic Perpendicular and Palladian architecture, the other two being Elizabethan and Jacobean.
		Innovation and design in Tudor and Stuart Britain: John Styles marks the opening of the new British Galleries at the V&A with a look......
		Tudor revival: here, a look at properties for sale all around the country.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0849635.html (438 words)

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