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 239
CHIMNEY-PIECES 189 frieze below is one of the innumerable Latin aphorisms withwhich houses of this time abound. The fireplace openingoccupies the full width between the sides of the chimney- … FiG. 199.—Stone Chimney-Piece from Boughton House, Northamptonshire (before 1556). piece, and if the grate were removed, would give a tolerableidea of the appearance of an Elizabethan fireplace, with itscast-iron fire-back delicately modelled, and the fire-dogs, orandirons, to hold the logs in…
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