The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 394
Ii vie L1I.—Half-timbered houses of Lisieux. OVERHANGING STORIES. 371 were hemmed in by fortified walls, which compelleda multiplication of stories as the population increased.To gain further space, each story overhung theone below, narrowing the street more and more andshutting off the light; but… … Fig. 156.—House of Jacques Cceur at Bourges. leaded glass, lent the facades that singular charm pe-culiar to the Middle Ages. Often the exterior woodwork was chamfered, andchiselled into graceful bas-relief; but this treatmentwas mostly confined to the fifteenth century, orperiod just preceding the…
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