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 344
mples erectedunder similar circumstances. The Close of a cathedral orother great secular foundation had the advantage of spacejust like a monastery, and was very different from acollege built in a street of Oxford or Cambridge. In-deed, as the inhabitants did not live coenobitically, butoccupied… … MEDIEVAL GATEHOUSES. 195 within such a Close did not form so much of an archi-tectural whole as those of a monastery. They were morelike a small town with a wall and gateway, and such isoften their character. As was before said, the gateways of monasteries, whichmight stand thus independent,…
Architecture, Domestic
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