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)
more generally diffused,which, when we consider thesize of the hall, was a matterof some importance ^. The hugelogs were piled upon the and-irons^ or thrown upon thehearth, and the use of woodand charcoal had few of thoseinconveniences which wouldhave resulted from coal. Thesmoke escaped from the… … The Louvre, WeBtminster HaiU. e Fires continued to be made on ahearth in the middle of the hall calledthe reredos, in many college halls inOxford and Cambridge until about 1820,and in Westminster college hall until1850. ^ Andirons were used in the 13thcentury. In the assessment made atColchester in…
Architecture, Domestic
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