Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 38
i6 LECTURES ON [LECTURE X. broad, and 8 feet high, and its walls are about 4 feet thick. Its doorway is but 3 feet high, and 2 feet 6 inches wide on the … Fig. 193. — Stone House, Arran. J ° tion of stones laid hori- zontally, till it is closed at the top by a single stone ; and two apertures in the centre served the double purpose of a window and a chimney." The cells of the monks differed but little from this, excepting in being quadrangular…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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