Putnam, J. Pickering (John Pickering), 1847-1917 · Boston, Ticknor and Co. · leaf 58
Fig. 19. Fireplace in Roslin Castle. THE OPEN FIREPLACE. 25 house, and no longer a separate establishment, in which whole sheep andoxen were cooked at one time, was furnished with one or more of thesemassive fireplaces, of which Fig. 20 furnishes a beautiful example. Itbelonged to the Abbey Blanche… … Fig. 20. Kitchen Fireplace of Granite. From Viollet-le-Duc. Here we have no piers at all, the hood resting on heavy corbels ofgranite, and the fireplace is built, as usual, in the thickness of the wall. Up to the fourteenth century the fireplaces of private houses andchateaux Avere generally of…
Fireplaces
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