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 283
hey 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… … QJ< O QQ< o N THE PURPOSE OF THE LONG GALLERY 223 of this apartment, and of the fact tliat not a few houses werespecially planned so as to obtain a gallery of great length.Some of them were extravagant in this respect, the lengthbeing as much as eight and ten times the width. At…
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