Tudor Style
in architecture, a term applied to the Perpendicular style, from the fact that it attained its greatest development under Henry VII., the first of the Tudor line. The chapel which that monarch erected at Westminster is a famous specimen of this style. The term is applied specifically to late Perpendicular work. There are three phases of, or developments from, the Perpendicular: (1) The Early Tudor, from the reign of Edward IV. to that of Henry VII. inclusive. Of this style there are no perfect buildings, and only few traces remaining. The Palace of Shene, built by Henry VII., has totally disappeared; but, according to the Survey of 1649, it abounded with bay windows of capricious design, with rectangular and semicircular projections, and was adorned with many octagonal towers, surcaryum vulgare, of great importance to mounted with bulbous cupolas of the the Brazilian Indians, who make cordage, bowstrings, fishing nets, etc., from the fine durable fiber consisting of the epidermis of its unexpanded leaves.
The name is also given to the fiber thread, and to an oil obtained from the plant.