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Victorian Sash Windows
The earliest-known use of sash windows in this country was in the later part of the 17th Century, at Chatsworth (c1676-1680), Ham House, Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace. Royal patronage, and its adoption by Wren, made sash windows very fashionable in both old and new buildings, and it immediately became something of a status symbol. Sash windows were ideally suited to Palladio's "perfect canons of proportion", that were practised in England by Inigo Jones.
The development of sash windows was timely, because it had enormous aesthetic and practical superiority over the older casement windows. People who could afford the new sash windows ruthlessly cut out their leaded-light windows, which explains why so many larger 16th and 17th Century houses have early 18th Century windows.
This fashionable modernisation was often lavished only on the principal facades, and early casement windows often survived on the less prominent facades. The earliest sash windows had thick glazing bars to the sashes, which were usually constructed of oak, the weight box being set almost flush with the outer wall.
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