Современная архитектура. Гусева О.Г - 14 стр.

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a churchyard
a posting house
an inn
Lexical test
1. Decorated period of a typical manor house is characterized…
a) by the planning improved with the hall’s trestle furniture
b) by the central courtyard entered through a gatehouse, protected by a
portcullis and drawbridge over a moat wich enclosed the whole group of
buildings
c) by the similarity in the small houses arrangement
2. Manor house of Tudor period dates…
a) the fifteenth century
b) the fourteenth century
c) the first half of the sixteenth century
3. What period of English architecture showed the improvement in social
conditions and commercial prosperity?
a) Early English period
b) Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
c) Perpendicular period
4. What public buildings were built in England in the seventh century?
a) schools
b) market halls
c) inns
5. What was the first English school’s function?
a) medical education
b) commercial education
c) religious education
II. Architectural masterpieces
London Bridge
From time immemorial a bridge stood at the part of the river not far from the place
where the Tower is situated now. The first London bridge was built by the Romans.
They conquered the Britons and established a fort, soon they found that a bridge was
necessary to cross the river, so they chose the narrowest place not far from their
settlement.