Early Renaissance Architecture in England: A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred)
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Early Renaissance Architecture in England: A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625
the time as have survived. The front chimneys are of the same pattern
as those on Plate LXXXV.
[Illustration: 217.--AN UN-NAMED GROUND PLAN (PAGES 217,
218).[31]
1. Hall.
2. Principal Stairs.
3. Parlour.
4. Inner Room.
5. Buttery.
6. Winter Parlour.
7. Back Stairs.
8. Survaying Place (?)
9. Kitchen.
10. Inner Court.]
[31] In order to bring this plan within the limits of the page, the
terrace walls on either side have been brought nearer to the house than
they are on the original drawing.
[Illustration: 218.--UPPER PLAN OF FIG. 217 (PAGES 217, 218).
11. Great Chamber.
12. Principal Stairs.
13. Gallery.
14, 14. Bedrooms.
15. Back Stairs.
16. Inner Court.]
[Illustration: 219.--ELEVATION OF FIGS. 217, 218.]
The foregoing examples are a few out of a great number which conform
to the traditional arrangement of the hall. The vast majority of the
plans follow this type, but there are some, which we will now proceed
to consider, in which the hall receives a different treatment, thus
indicating that important change which resulted in its becoming a place
of entrance instead of what it had been for four centuries--the centre
of household life.
[Illustration: 220.--AN UN-NAMED PLAN.
1. Hall.
2. Parlour.
3. Principal Stairs.
4. Chapel.
5. Lodging.
6. Buttery.
7. Winter Parlour.
8. Back Stairs.
9. Survaying Place.
10. Kitchen.
11. Pastry.
12. Courtyard.]
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