ELIZABETHAN STYLE, in architecture, a term loosely applied to the early Renaissance work in England up to the end of the 16th century. The term Tudor Period (q.v.) is generally limited to the earlier Elizabethan work, in which Gothic elements are still dominant; the Jacobean style (q.v.) is used of the later portion of the period, in which Renaissance ideas had finally con quered. These three terms are overlapping and there is much variety of usage in the meanings given to them by different authorities. In general, the Elizabethan style is that which resulted from the impingement upon the vivid perpendicular Gothic tra dition, first of Italian Renaissance artists, such as Pietro Torre giano, who designed the tomb of Henry VII., and later of a great number of Flemish craftsmen who settled in England. Thus, such buildings as Hampton Court palace, Sutton place in Surrey, Hatfield House and Audley End, varying as they do from the Gothic of Hampton Court to the Renaissance of Hatfield, are all spoken of as in the Elizabethan style.