A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 364
as even retained when the more modernpractice began of lateral intercomnuuiicatiou bymejins 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,already, the modern idea of one main… … In the north transept of Hursos cathedral, Spain,leading to the external doorway called the PuertaAlta (high portal), this height being made nec- essary by the slope of tlie ground. This workdates from the sixteenth century, and is ascribedto Diego de Silo^. STAIR oil oiTiisiiiii.s of (Triuioiiy —…
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