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 75
arrangement of the hall is still plain, although thekitchen is not recognisable. The almost invariable dispositionof the hall was as follows : it was an oblong apartment withone end cut off by a screen, which formed the entrance passagecalled the screens. From this passage the hall was enteredon… … many of the colleges in Oxford and Cambridge. The hallitself was usually lighted from both sides, and was a lofty apart-ment with an open roof, that is, with all the timbers showing.The effect of this disposition was that the hall divided thehouse into two separate portions ; there was no…
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