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Elizabethan architecture is notably pluralistic. It came at the end of insular late Gothic traditions in design and construction called the Perpendicular style in church building, the fenestration, vaulting techniques, and open truss designs of which often affected the detail of larger domestic buildings. In the later 16th century, illustrated continental pattern-books introduced a wide range of architectural exemplars, fuelled by the archaeology of Ancient Rome.

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