A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 278
the like.Tiie character of the building, however, is prac-tically the same throughout Western Europe atany given period, the changes in the systemof defence coining slowly but almost simultane-ously throughout all the lands of NorthwesternEurope. 409 ings lielow the third or fourth story except… … C-^^stle: Plan of Little Wenha.m Hall, Suffolk. in Yorkshire, wdiich was one of the largest for-tresses of this early time (circa 1100). Such atower would contain but one chamber in eachstory, although a small oratory, closet, or private470 CASTLE room might be opened in tlie tliickness of thewall…
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