A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 364
was even retained when the more modernpractice 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 duiteaux of France andthe great Elizabetlian houses ; although here,already, the modern idea of one main… … STAIR In the north transept of Burgos cathedral, Spain,leading to the external doorway called the PuertaAlta ( high portal), this height heing 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 ceremony —…
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