Early renaissance architecture in England : a historical and descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean periods, 1500-1625 : for the use of students and others (1914)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London : B.T. Batsford New York : Scribner's · leaf 276
received guests. Itwas the Great Chamber of Estate. In smaller houses itanswered much the same end as the drawing-room of thepresent day. Even so inconsiderable a person as Slender, whowas a small squire, had a great chamber in his house, whichhe took care to mention casually in the course of his… … THE PURPOSE OF THE LON<, OAU.ERY 223 of this apartment, and of the fact that ni>t a few houses werespecially plannefl so as to obtain a gallery of great length.Some of them were extravagant in this res|ject, the lengthbeing as much as eight and ten times the width. At BuckhurstHouse the…
Architecture, Renaissance · Architecture -- England
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