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 120
enth 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; and at theintersection of these ribs are square… … HALL, GREAT CHALFIELD, WILTSHIRE. THE HALL. 61 commonly of plaster, with a great variety of patternsstamped in them; sometimes with pendants in the placeof the bosses, in other cases merely panelling, of whichthere is a rich example in the ceiling of the chapel ofthe Savoy Palace in the Strand. As…
Architecture, Domestic
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