Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
e frequently carriedso far through the thick-ness of the wall that it isnecessary to corbel out thechimney at the backm; ofthis we have a good examplein the Potter-gate at Lin-coln, where the fire-place isin the room over the arch-way, and the chimney iscorbelled out, and so carriedup to a short… … higher m This fashion of corbelling out thechimneys may be observed in the twelfthcentury at the Jews House, Lincoln, butit was more common in the fourteenth.In some foreign towns this feature is re-markably prevalent, as at Treves, where itis a prevailing feature, and the lower partof the chimney…
Architecture, Domestic
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