Editing Jacobethan (section)

==Style==
[[File:39 Welsh Row, Nantwich2.jpg|thumb|The former bank at [[39 Welsh Row, Nantwich]] is another]]
In architecture the style's main characteristics are flattened, cusped "Tudor" [[arch]]es, lighter stone [[Molding (decorative)|trims]] around [[window]]s and [[door]]s, carved brick detailing, steep roof [[gable]]s, often [[terracotta|terra-cotta]] [[brickwork]], [[balustrade]]s and [[parapet]]s, [[column|pillars]] supporting [[porch]]es and high [[chimney]]s as in the Elizabethan style. Examples of this style are [[Harlaxton Manor]] in Lincolnshire (''illustration''), [[Mentmore Towers]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Good Stuff IT Services |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-42105-mentmore-towers-mentmore |title=Mentmore Towers - Mentmore - Buckinghamshire - England |publisher=British Listed Buildings |date=1951-09-26 |access-date=2012-08-15}}</ref> in [[Buckinghamshire]] and [[Sandringham House]] in [[Norfolk]], England.

In June 1835, when the competition was announced for designs for new [[Palace of Westminster|Houses of Parliament]], the terms asked for designs either in the Gothic or the Elizabethan style. The seal was set on the [[Gothic Revival]] as a national style, even for the grandest projects on the largest scale; at the same time, the competition introduced the possibility of an ''Elizabethan'' revival. Of the ninety-seven designs submitted, six were in a self-described "Elizabethan" style.<ref>Pevsner 1962:477</ref>

In 1838, with the Gothic revival well under way in Britain, [[Joseph Nash]], trained in [[Augustus Pugin|A. W. N. Pugin]]'s office designing Gothic details, struck out on his own with a lithographed album ''Architecture of the Middle Ages: Drawn from Nature and on Stone'' in 1838. Casting about for a follow-up, Nash extended the range of [[antiquary|antiquarian]] interests forward in time with his next series of [[lithograph]]s ''The Mansions of England in the Olden Time'' 1839–1849, which accurately illustrated Tudor and Jacobean great houses, interiors as well as exteriors, made lively with furnishings and peopled by inhabitants in [[Ruff (clothing)|ruffs]] and [[farthingale]]s, the quintessence of "[[Merry England|Merrie Olde England]]". A volume of text accompanied the fourth and last volume of plates in 1849, but it was Nash's [[picturesque]] illustrations that popularised the style and created a demand for the  variations on the English Renaissance styles that was the essence of the newly revived "Jacobethan" vocabulary.

Two young architects already providing Jacobethan buildings were [[James Pennethorne]] and [[Anthony Salvin]], both later knighted. Salvin's Jacobethan [[Harlaxton Manor]], near [[Grantham, Lincolnshire]], its first sections completed in 1837, is the great example that defines the style.

[[File:Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla.jpg|thumb|[[Rashtrapati Niwas]] (formerly Viceregal Lodge) in [[Shimla]] is an example of the Jacobethan style outside England]]
The ''Jacobethan'' Revival survived the late 19th century and became a part of the commercial builder's repertory through the first 20 years of the 20th century. Apart from its origins in the United Kingdom, the style became popular both in Canada and throughout the United States during those periods, for sturdy "baronial" dwellings in a free Renaissance style. A key exponent of the style in Britain was [[Thomas Graham Jackson|T. G. Jackson]].  Some examples can also be found in buildings in the former British Empire, such as [[Rashtrapati Niwas]], the former Viceregal Lodge at [[Shimla]] in India.

[[File:Hws coxe hall.JPG|250px|thumb|right|Coxe Hall, fronting the Hobart Quad.  The building, named for Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe, is an example of Jacobethan architecture.]]

Excellent examples of the style in the United States are Coxe Hall, Williams Hall, and Medbury Hall, which define the West and North sides of the quadrangle of [[Hobart and William Smith Colleges|Hobart College]] in [[Geneva, NY]].