Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII (1859)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford London, J. H. and J. Parker · leaf 119
e chambers at either end of thehall, and they were concealed in the form of stone masks,through the eyes and mouth of which a full view of thehall could be obtained. These masks have been pre-served, although unfortunately removed from their ori-ginal position in some modern improvements. One… … Openings in the Hall, Great Chalfield. In the fifteenth century, and more especially in thebeginning of the sixteenth, the ceilings are often veryrichly ornamented; the earlier examples are more com-monly of wood only, divided into square panels by ribsof bold projection, and often well moulded;…
Architecture, Domestic
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