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 31
renderedthe old mode of fortification in a great degree useless,except to protect the house against any sudden attack ofa party of marauders ; and the builders became graduallyaware of the fact, so that the gatehouse and the walls,and battlements and towers, began to be considered morein the light… … GENERAL REMARKS. 7 and civilized state of the country also had its effect; andnotwithstanding the wars of the Boses, England appearsto have made more rapid progress in the peaceful artsduring this century than any other country. In Thorn-bury Castle and Cowdray House, the fortifications appearto be…
Architecture, Domestic
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