A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 83
URY [chap. IV common living room was going out of fashion. It was usedfor Christmas revels and great entertainments, but the masterand mistress had their private dining-room, and even as earlyas 1460 a privy-parlour was attached to the hall at WanswellCourt in Gloucestershire. Moreover, the long… … THORNTON COLLEGE, SIR VINCENT SKYNNERs. SECOND STOREY.(SOANE COLLECTION.) of the house than as a place in which the household lived.What the hall lost in importance the grand staircase gained.The fact that the gallery and the chief living rooms of the housewere on the upper floors suggested that…
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