Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
RCHITECTURE : FOURTEENTH CENTURY. The pleasure gardens so minutely and glowingly de-scribed in the Roman de laRose, were not only storedwith flowers and fruits, but wereadorned with grottos of fantasticdesign, and gushing fountainsadded to the luxury of the scene. Par lieux y eut cleres… … Fountain from the MS. of the Boman de laKose, In the Bodleian Library. The fountain was a luxury not often introduced into theEnglish pleasure gardens. They were seldom suppliedwith anything superior to a w^ell. Chaucer in his versionof the Roman de la Rose uses the word well as an equi-valent for…
Architecture, Domestic
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