Although the English Queen Anne houses do not revel in gambrel roofs, shingled or tiled sides, and sunburst ornaments to the extent observ able in American houses, they combine with their half-classical smaller details the essentially Gothic features of projecting upper storeys, half timbered work, mullioned windows, oriels, and high gables to such an extent that the ensemble is Gothic.
An external projecting entrance-porch is a common feature in English residences, not only in the country, but also in the immediate suburbs of the city; but it is seldom that this porch develops into the American piazza by running across an entire front or surrounding most of the house.
English Architecture in has already been remarked (p. 122), the modern structures of Hindustan are no longer characteristic of the races which inhabit that great peninsula, but bear the impress of the con quering race. The art of the present age is world-wide, and the energy of Europeans has caused their architecture to supplant native styles. But it has not been possible for the English, any more than for other races which at various times in the world's history have held beneath their sway countries possessed of art equal, or even superior, to their own, to avoid the adoption of some of the arrangements and motifs of the conquered race. In the early days of English rule this was not done. The native
styles were unknown and unstudied by the Feringhee, who put up bald Palladian structures to his entire satisfaction. But the exigences of climate and position taught him something, and the study of native architecture, Buddhist and Mohammedan, raised up admirers of it. Even the Fort Police Courts at Bombay, strictly Gothic though they are, evidence adap tation to climate in the number of open loggias that adorn the front, and in the tower of Allahabad University, though designed by an English man, we have what is practically, in outline and in decoration, a Moorish minaret.
The Financial Calcutta, present an example of Renaissance in brick with decorations of buff terra-cotta, and indicate a marked ad vance architecturally upon the conventionally classical structures of the earlier days of English rule. In order to take advantage.of the prevailing wind, these buildings form a narrow main line with three projecting arms, and the foundations, as is necessary in the swampy soil, are built with the greatest care to obtain an even bearing. This precludes great picturesque ness of outline and everywhere limits the structure to three storeys, yet a pleasing effect is obtained by the altered fenestration of the pavilions.