A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 359
and was even retained when tiie more modempractice began of lateral intercommunication bymeans of passages on each floor. (See House,Figs. 5 and 6.) This is to be seen in suchbuildings as the late chateaux of France andthe great Elizabethan houses ; although here,alre^idy, the modern idea of one… … STAIR In the north tvansept of Burgos cathedral, Spain,leading to tlie external doorway called the PuertaAlta ( high portal), this height being made nec- essary by the slope of the ground. This workdates from the sixteenth century, and is ascribedto Diego de Silo6. STAIR on occasions of ceieuioiiy…
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