Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862- · London, Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 198
old docu-ments, you read of a house in two or three bays, you are tounderstand a house thirty-two or forty-eight feet long. And a bay-window, originally, was something more than arecess : it was wide and big, in keeping with the unit of measure-ment, at least to a very marked extent ; it gave room… … U.U]ffX. >5 e ^i- J x : — -jf U ■r.O HOMES FROM OUTSIDE : WINDOWS AND DOORS feet by twelve feet. These, then, are genuine 6ay-windows,unlike our own dwindled copies. And this old question of amplesize, of spacious freedom indoors, touches that which we valuemost—the ruling spirit that colonises…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration
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