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, ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 117
he introduction of this refinement marks the dwindlingimportance of the hall. The latter is ceasing to be the centre offamily life, and becoming merely an entrance. The dais endis no longer the comfortable place it was, with its bay windowand the fireplace close by : it is becoming pierced with… … So ASTON HALL This change is quite apparent in the last plan of the series,that of Aston Hall, in Warwickshire (1618-35). The hall is
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