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Abingdon Abbey, 41, 42, 103, 110;

chimney-shaft, 110;

fireplace, 42, 110;

guest-house, 42;

prior’s room, 41;

treatment of walls, 42;

windows, 42, 103

Adam, the Brothers, 238, 274, 278, 290

Adam, Robert, 238

Aldrich, Dean, 234

Alignment, 70

Alnwick Castle, 44, 100, 102;

windows, 100, 102

Amateur Architects, 223–229, 233, 234

Amateur Spirit among professional architects, 235

Amorini, 134, 137, 197

Anne, Queen, 266

Apartments named by Chaucer, 45–47, 140;

by Spenser, 139, 140;

in Thorpe’s plans, 141, 142;

in Smithson’s plans, 152

Apethorpe Hall, 194, 203;

plaster panel from ceiling, 194;

long gallery, 203, 204

Arabesque on mullions, 133, 134;

on panelling, 187

“Architecture of A. Palladio,” by G. Leoni, 235

Arras, 125, 139, 191

Astley Hall, long gallery, 204

Aston Hall, 151, 210;

planning, 151, 210;

vestibule, 151, 210

Audley End, extent of, 154

Aydon Castle, 36, 91, 111, 114;

chimney-shaft, 111;

doorway, 91;

fireplaces, 111, 114;

precautions for defence, 36

Baguley Hall, timber hall, 45

Ball-Flowers, 94

Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, 210, 222

Barlborough Hall, 179

Basing House, fall of, 221

Bay Windows, Elizabethan and Jacobean, 145, 157–159, 179, 182, 213;

mediæval, 58, 103–105;

Tudor, 128, 130, 132

Beauchamp, Thomas, Earl of Warwick, 44

Beaufort House, Chelsea, 147

Bedrooms, 142, 204, 212, 246

Belsay Castle, 22

Bitchfield Tower, 22

Blenheim Palace, 154, 234, 237, 244;

extent of, 154, 244;

Pope’s criticism on, 237

Bodiam Castle, 35, 36

Bolection Mouldings, at Boughton House, 262

Bolt, Wood, at Stanton Harcourt, 97

Boughton House, 239, 242, 262, 282, 292;

ceilings, 239, 292;

French feeling, 239;

furniture, 239;

lay-out, 239;

panelling, 239, 262, 282;

staircases, 239

Bower, 45, 47

Brad Street, house at, 175

Bramhall Hall, 173

Brettingham, Matthew, 266

Brickwork, 79, 80, 81, 86, 124, 134, 169;

diaper in, 86, 134

Britton, J., 223

Brome Hall, 182;

chimney-stacks, 182;

dormers, 182;

gardens, 182;

porch, 182;

symmetrical arrangement, 182

Broughton Castle, 44

Brympton D’Evercy, bay window, 104

Buckhurst House, 154

Buckingham Street, Strand, house in, 264, 285;

ceiling, 285;

panelling, 262, 264;

residence of Peter the Great, 264

Burford, Vicarage at, 220;

roof and windows, 220

Burghley House, 60, 65, 66, 154;

kitchen, 60, 65, 66

Burghley, Lord, 66, 154, 185

Burlington, Earl of, 233, 235, 237, 244

Burlington Street, house in, 233;

Lord Chesterfield’s advice concerning, 233

Burroughs, Sir James, 234

Burton Agnes, 155

Burwash, Sussex, house at, 250, 251, 272;

chimneys and windows, 251;

door, 272

Butchers’ Guild, Hereford, hall of, chimney-piece, 198

Calgarth Old Hall, panelling, 189

Campbell, Colin, 232, 235, 246, 249

Canons Ashby, coved ceiling, 193

Cardigan, Lord, 27

Cark Hall, doorway, 268, 272

Carshalton House, 258;

gates, 258;

railings, 258

Carter, J., 223

Cartouche of arms, 261

Carving, stone, at Oakham Castle, 33;

wood, 198, 262, 266, 274–277, 282

Castle Ashby, lettered parapet, 179

Castle Hedingham, 5, 6, 7–13, 91, 100, 106, 109, 114;

doorway, 91;

fireplace, 8, 10, 12, 106;

floors, 114;

gallery, 7, 10;

orifice, 109;

windows, 10, 13, 100;

wooden shutters, 13;

roof, 8, 114;

staircase, 8, 10

Castle Howard, 154, 234, 244;

extent of, 154, 244

Castles, Norman, 1–6

Castle Rising, 5, 6

Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 147

Ceilings, coved, 192, 193, 241;

Elizabethan and Jacobean, 191–194, 196, 197, 203, 204, 282;

late seventeenth century and eighteenth century, 241, 282, 292;

mediæval, 87, 88, 114, 116, 119, 122, 123;

painted, 239, 290–292

Central Hearth, 27, 32, 70, 106–109, 280

Chacombe Priory, windows, 100, 101

Chapel, 6, 30, 49, 82, 145, 146, 152, 241, 244

Charles I., 203

Charles II. encourages architecture, 221;

arms of, in plaster, 220;

Sir John Denham, Surveyor of Works to, 234;

brings Verrio to England, 290

Chaucer, Geoffrey, description of fourteenth-century house, 45–47;

compared with Spenser’s, 140

Chesterfield, Lord, 233

Chimneys, Elizabethan and Jacobean (1603), 169, 179, 182, 210, 213, 249;

mediæval, 109–112;

late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 214, 249, 251;

Tudor, 164

Chimney-Piece, eighteenth century, 275–278;

Elizabethan and Jacobean, 195–198, 277;

mediæval, 40, 80, 81, 114

Chipchase Castle, 22

Chiswick, villa at, by Lord Burlington, 233

Chute, Mr, 234

Civil Wars, effect of, on South Wingfield, 76;

on house-building, 221

Clarke, Dr, 234

Cocklaw Tower, colour decoration at, 21

Colchester Castle, fireplace, 109

Cold Ashton Manor House, walled garden, 179

Cold Overton, 201, 220;

dog-gate, 201, 220;

porch, 220;

staircase, 220;

windows, 220

Coles Farm, Box, plaster frieze, 282

Coleshill, 212–215;

chimneys, 214;

roof, 214;

windows, 213, 214

Colour Decoration, 21, 42, 43, 187, 290–292

Combe Abbey, doorway, 274

“Complete Body of Architecture,” by Isaac Ware, 225, 226, 227

Conisborough Castle, chapel, 6

Conway, General, 234

“Cook’s Tale of Gamelyn,” 45

Cornice, classic, 127, 159–163, 165, 169, 193, 195, 216, 219, 220, 224, 239, 266, 268, 274, 290, 292;

projecting, 214, 249;

wood, at Lyddington, 121, 123

Corridor, beginnings of, 145, 146;

becomes general, 152;

lack of at Boughton, 239

Cothele House, great hall, 35

Cotswolds, manor houses of, 155

“Counter-hauriant,” 132–134

Cowdray House, tendency towards symmetry, 67;

gatehouse at, 131

Cowper, William, 280

Crenellate, licence to, 44

Crewe Hall, staircase, 201

Crockets, 94

Cromwell, Ralph, Lord Treasurer, 68, 78, 81

Dado, 259, 262, 266

Daïs, 26, 33, 35, 58, 141, 145, 151

Deene Park, central hearth, 27, 106;

chimney-piece, 197

Defence, precautions for, in fortified manor houses, 29, 30, 35, 36, 88–91, 92;

keeps, 3, 10, 14, 88–91;

mediæval manor houses, 47, 51, 76, 84–86, 88–91;

Tudor manor houses, 131, 139;

at Kenilworth, 53;

less need for, 86, 113;

treatment of windows, 98, 103;

abandonment of, 143;

reminiscence of, 145

Denham, Sir John, 234

Derwent Hall, 169

“Designs of Architecture,” by Abraham Swan, 266, 278

“Designs of Inigo Jones,” by William Kent, 229–231

De Veres, Earls of Oxford, 12

Diaper—See under “Brickwork”

Dog-gate, 201, 220

Dog-grate, 282

Dog-tooth, 33

Dolphins, Floriated, 132, 133

Doorways, external, at Drayton, 241;

eighteenth century, 272–274;

Jacobean, 268–272;

mediæval, 88–98

Doorways, internal, eighteenth century, 274, 275;

Elizabethan and Jacobean, 195, 274

Dormers, 182, 214, 219, 220, 249

Dover Castle, keep, 5

Drayton House, 44, 119, 239–242, 255, 298;

alterations, 241, 242;

boudoir, 241;

ceiling, 241;

gardens, 241, 242;

ironwork, 241, 242, 255;

long gallery, 241;

roof, 119, 241;

staircases, 241, 298;

windows, 241

Drayton, Simon de, 44

East Barsham, 134, 137

Eastbury, Dorset, 242

Eastington, doorway, 97

Easton Hall, ironwork, 255, 256

Ecclesiastical Architecture, compared with domestic, 28, 29, 33, 87, 100, 103, 118

Edward VI., 27, 108

Egg-and-tongue Ornament, 133, 134

“Elements of Architecture,” by Sir Henry Wotton, 204, 222

Elizabeth, Queen, sanitation in days of, 75;

the staircase, 76, 124, 198, 202;

house builders in reign of, 78, 154;

increase of comfort under, 127

Elizabethan Designer, 58, 103, 114

Elizabethan House—See under “Manor House”

Elizabethan Planning—See under “Planning”

Eltham Palace, doorway, 95;

roof, 119, 121

Entablature, 164, 165, 229

Evelyn, John, 221, 222

Ewelme, School at, doorway, 97

Exeter, Earl of, 185

Extinguisher, 258

Eyam Hall, walled garden, 179

“Faerie Queene,” 138, 139

Fanlight, 272, 273

Fan Tracery, 123

Fawsley, Northants, 104, 114;

bay window, 104;

chimney-piece, 114;

staircase, 104

Felbrigge Hall, 169, 176, 179;

parapet, 179;

porch, 268

Fenton House, Hampstead, sensible planning at, 250

Fireplace, mediæval, 10, 12, 21, 27, 35, 38, 40, 42, 58, 61, 70, 74, 80, 83, 87, 88, 105–114;

sixteenth century, 130, 148, 186;

absence of, 27, 32

Fitzosborne, Sir Thomas, letter of, 236, 237

Fitzwilliam, Earl, 234

French Influence at Boughton House, 239

Frieze, 165, 229, 231, 274, 282

Furniture, 140, 239, 241

Gallery, 7, 10, 50;

long, 49, 50, 138–140, 142, 145, 152, 202, 203, 204, 210, 241;

minstrels’, 26

Gardens, 49, 179–182, 184, 185, 239, 241, 242, 255

Garden design, 184, 185

Garden, orange, 185;

sunk, 185, 239;

walled, 179–182

Garde-robe, 7, 18, 42, 68, 75, 80, 86;

pit, 21;

tower, 58

Gascelyn Family, builders of Sheldons, 154

Gatehouse, 3, 35, 36, 37, 46, 75, 81, 84–86, 90, 94, 131, 139

Gate Piers, 155, 255, 258

Gates, iron, 241, 251, 255, 256, 258

Gayhurst, 179, 268;

gables, 179;

parapet, 179;

porch, 268;

roof, 179

George I., 237

George II., 255

Georgian Houses, 108, 223, 266

Gibbons, Grinling, 262

Gibbs, James, 229, 231, 234, 278

Glastonbury, Abbot’s kitchen, 60, 61–63;

the Hall, staircase, 295, 298;

street front at, 105

Godalming, doorway, 272

Grate, Fire, 111, 280, 282

Great Chalfield, oriel, 104

Great Chamber, 82, 142, 145, 152, 210

Great Queen Street, street front, 218

Haddon Hall, 44, 47–53, 70;

chapel, 49;

chimney-stack, 51;

dining-room, 51;

Eagle Tower, 47, 51;

gallery, 50, 51;

gallery, long, 49, 50;

hall, 41, 50, 51, 70;

kitchen, 47, 50;

windows, 47, 50, 51

Half-Timber Work, 36, 38, 97, 151, 171–175, 218

Hall, dominance of, 24, 45, 137, 141;

loss of importance of, 142, 152;

altered treatment, 143, 149–151;

becomes a vestibule, 151, 210;

Spenser’s description of, 139

Hall of fourteenth-century manor house, 45–60;

of Norman keep, 7, 8;

of thirteenth century, 24–27, 31–34

Halton Castle, 22

Hampton Court, 138, 154, 191, 203, 239;

character of plan, 138;

long gallery, 203;

tapestry, 191

Handrail, 81, 124, 201, 293, 295

Hardwick Hall, staircase, 199, 200

Harrietsham, doorway, 95, 98

Harrison, William, 186

Hastings, Sir William, 67, 86;

heraldic maunch of, 86

Hatfield House, 166, 179, 201;

dog-gate, 201

Hatton, Sir Christopher, 154

Hatton Garden, house in, chimney-piece, 278

Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 234

Heath Hall, 176, 179, 185;

garden flight of steps, 185

Hengrave Hall, character of plan, 137

Henry II., 4, 17, 33

Henry III., 42, 55;

influence on architecture of, 42, 43

Henry VI., 241

Henry VII., 106, 130, 134, 136, 187;

domestic work in reign of, 130, 134;

tomb of, 136

Henry VII.’s Chapel, 222, 223

Henry VIII. and the Renaissance, 126, 136, 137;

domestic architecture under, 128–140;

chimneys, 164;

panelling, 187

“Henry VIII.’s Lodgings” at Kenilworth, 60

Heraldry in Decoration, 43, 80, 86, 194, 195–198, 201, 204, 272

Hereford, Butcher’s Guild, hall of, chimney-piece, 198

Herringstone, ceiling, 192, 193

Hipped Roof—See under “Roof”

Holdenby, extent of, 154

“Hollingshed’s Chronicles,” 186

Horham Hall, 128, 130;

fireplace, 130;

hall, 128, 130;

windows, 128

Horn, as material for glazing, 42, 98

Hurstmonceux Castle, 85

Houghton Conquest, 215

Ightham Mote, roof, 116, 118

Ironwork, 241, 242, 255, 258;

gates, 241, 255, 256, 258;

railings, 242, 255, 256, 258;

staircase balustrades, 301

Italian Influence in England, 67, 127, 128, 132–138, 160–166, 187, 196, 206–208, 235–238

James I., 95, 194, 208, 210

John, King, 49, 55

John of Gaunt, 44, 55

Jones, Inigo, 205, 207, 221, 229–232, 234, 237;

banqueting hall, 210, 222;

works attributed to, 215, 216, 261;

Stoke Bruerne, 225

Keep, its origin, 3;

relation to castle, 3;

described, 4–6;

late survival of, 20, 23, 35;

compared with fortified manor house, 20, 24;

fireplaces in, 106;

roofs or ceilings, 114

Keep, at Castle Hedingham, 7–13;

at Kenilworth, 53, 60;

at Longthorpe, 35, 114;

at Peak Castle, 17–20;

at Stokesay Castle, 35, 40, 41;

at Tattershall, 21, 79–81;

at Warkworth, 23, 81

Kenilworth Castle, 5, 44, 53–60, 185;

fireplaces, 58;

hall, 55, 58;

keep, 53, 60;

kitchen, 56, 58;

undercroft, 55;

windows, 58

Kent, William, 229, 231, 235, 278

King’s Lynn, house at, chimney-piece, 198

Kip, views by, 145, 147, 157, 182, 184

Kirby Hall, 152, 154, 163

Kirby Muxloe, 67, 84–86;

gatehouse, 86;

hall, 86

Kirtling Hall, 131, 132

Kitchen, importance of, 60;

Abbot’s, at Durham, 60;

Abbot’s, at Glastonbury, 60, 61–63;

at Burleigh House, 60, 65;

at Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, 65, 66;

at Haddon Hall, 47, 50, 65;

at Kenilworth Castle, 56, 58;

at Oakham Castle, 31, 32;

at Raby Castle, 60;

at South Wingfield, 61, 65, 73, 74;

at Stokesay Castle, 38;

at Warkworth Castle, 82, 83

Knocker, 97

Knole, 154

Knyff, views by, 182, 184

Lacock, Angel Inn, doorway, 95, 97;

knocker on, 97

Laguerre, 290

Lancaster, Edmund, Earl of, 55

Landsdowne House, chimney-piece, 278

Lantern Light, 108

Lantern, octagonal, 63

Layer Marney, 131, 132, 133, 187;

gatehouse, 131;

windows, 132, 133;

panel from, 187

Lay-out of Houses, 179–185, 239

Lavenham, ceilings, 122, 123

Leadwork, urns at Drayton, 242;

figures at Carshalton, 258;

roofs, 179;

used on doorway pediments, 272

Leicester, Dudley, Earl of, work at Kenilworth, 55, 59, 60

Lenham, doorway, 97, 98

Leoni, Giacomo, 235, 258

Liberate Rolls, of Henry III.’s time, 42

Lincoln, Bishops of, 123

Linen Pattern, 187

Little Moreton Hall, 173

Little Sodbury, roof, 119, 121

Little Wenham Hall, windows, 100–102

Loggia, 145

Long Gallery, 49, 50, 138–140, 142, 145, 152;

object of, 203, 204;

goes out of fashion, 210, 241

Longleat, 157, 179, 182, 206;

bay windows, 157, 182;

lay-out, 182;

roofs, 179

Longthorpe, 35, 114

Louvre, 27, 32, 106, 108, 130

Love Lane, house in, staircase, 293

Lyddington Bede House, ceiling, 123;

cornice, 123

Lytes Carey Manor House, 137

Machicolations, 81, 89, 90

Manners, Sir John, 49

Manor House, Elizabethan and Jacobean, 1, 25, 70, 157–179;

fortified, 20, 24–43;

mediæval, 45–61, 67–86;

Tudor, 128–139

Markenfield Hall, 45

Martin Marprelate Tracts, 105

Marton Hall, 173

Mary, Queen of Scots, at South Wingfield, 74, 75

Mary, William and, 239, 285

Maunch, heraldic, at Kirby Muxloe, 86

Mayfield, Bishop’s Palace, doorway, 92–94;

roof, 116–118;

window, 103

Melton Constable, 215

Mereworth “Castle,” 235

Minster Lovel, hall, 26

Moat, 35, 36, 53, 76, 84, 131

Montacute House, 155

Montagu, George, letter from Walpole to, 234

Montagu, Ralph, Duke of, 239

Montfort, Simon de, 55

More, Sir Thomas, 148

Morteigne, Earl of, afterwards King John, 49

Mouldings, 86, 91, 123, 259, 262;

bolection, 262;

of panels, 262

Moyns Park, 166, 169

Mullion, 29, 100, 101, 102, 154, 163, 165, 166, 210, 251;

origin of, 101, 102;

ornamented with arabesques, 133, 134;

replaced by sash windows, 213–220, 241;

survival of, 220

Nassington, Prebendal House, doorway, 91

Naworth, 45

Nevills, Earls of Westmorland, 44

Newcastle House, 223

Newel Staircase—See under “Staircase”

Nonesuch Palace, 137

Norfolk, Duchess of, work for, at Drayton, 241, 255;

monogram of, 255

Norrington, doorway, 95

Northborough Manor House, described, 45, 94;

chimney, 112

Nunney, Castle of, 45

Oakham Castle, 27, 28, 29–33, 45, 55, 101;

hall, 27, 31–33, 55;

kitchen, 31, 32;

window tracery, 101

Ogee Arch, 94

Oillets, 85, 89

Old War Office, plaster panels, 266;

ceiling, 288

Oolite Stone, 169

Open Hearth—See “Central Hearth”

Orders, use of the, 162, 163

Oriel, 104, 105, 132, 137

Orifice, 109, 110, 111

Oxburgh, gatehouse, 131

Oxford and Cambridge, halls of, 108, 134;

kitchens, 65, 66

Oxford, Earls of, 12

Palladio, Andrea, 233, 235;

“Architecture of,” by G. Leoni, 235

Panelling, wood, 124, 125, 187–191, 194;

late seventeenth century and eighteenth century, 259–266;

plaster, 266

Parapet, 165, 179

Parham, ceiling, 191

Parlour, 139, 140, 142, 145, 146, 152;

winter, 148

Parquetry, at Drayton, 241

Peak Castle, 5, 6, 13–20, 49, 108;

keep, 15–20;

staircase, 18

Pedestal, stone, at Drayton, 242

Pediment, 127, 216;

broken, 261;

semicircular over doorway, 272

Pele or Pele-Tower, descent of Elizabethan house from, 1;

similarity between keep and, 17;

late examples, 21, 22;

stone vaulting at, 114;

Belsay Castle, 22;

Bitchfield Tower, 22;

Chipchase Castle, 22;

Cocklaw Tower, 21;

Halton Castle, 22;

Longthorpe, 35, 114;

Pembroke, Henry, Earl of, 234

Penshurst Place, licence to crenellate, 44;

central hearth, 108;

roof, 119;

window, 103

Percy, Henry, son of Hotspur, 81

Peter the Great, 264

Petworth, doorway, 272

Piers, Gate—See under “Gate”

Pilaster, 162, 163, 169, 195, 196, 219, 259, 264, 272

Pilton Manor House, 166

Pindar, Sir Paul, house of, 157, 159

Planning—courtyard type, 143–145, 152;

eighteenth century, 233–236, 242–250;

of Elizabethan and Jacobean house, 25, 58, 140, 143–154;

of fortified manor house, 20, 24–42;

type, 148–152;

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of mediæval manor house, 47–60, 67–86;

of Norman keep, 20–23;

of seventeenth century, 210–213;

of Tudor house, 128–139;

under the influence of the amateurs, 224–232

Plasterwork, 123, 194, 218, 220;

ceilings, 191–194, 204, 282–290, 295;

details in, to imitate stone, 171;

frieze, 282;

panelling, 266

Poore, Bishop, 246

Pope, Alexander, criticisms on Palladian architecture, 237;

letter to Burlington, 244

Porch, 42;

central, 149, 175;

at Brome Hall, 182;

projecting, 220

Portcullis, 85, 89, 139, 143

Powis Castle, 185

Powys, Lord, 223

Prudhoe Castle, oriel, 105

Pulteney, John de, licence to crenellate granted to, 44

Purlins, 116, 121

Quenby Hall, parapet, 179;

roof, 179

Quoins, 169, 249

Raby Castle, 44, 60;

kitchen, 60

Rail, Hand—See “Handrail”

Railings, iron, 242, 254, 255, 258

Rawdon House, staircase, 201;

doorway, 202

Raynham Hall, 212–215;

chimney-piece, 278;

doorway, 274

Renaissance, the, 86, 87;

advent into England, 126–128, 136;

Inigo Jones and, 207

Richmond Palace, central hearth, 106

Ripley, Thomas, 235

Rochester Castle, 5, 6, 7, 91, 100, 114;

doorway, 91;

keep, 5, 6, 7;

roofs, 114;

windows, 100

Roll of the Pipe, 17

Roofs, flat, 179;

hammer-beam, 121, 122;

hipped, 214, 249;

lead, 179;

octagonal, 63;

open-timber, 33, 37, 58, 116–122;

stone-vaulted, 114

Rothwell Manor House, described, 249;

entrance doorway, 249, 274

Rothwell Market House, circular stair, 199

St James’s Square, house in, 238;

ceiling, 290

St John’s College, Oxford, 215

St Paul’s, 222, 232

Salisbury, house in Close, 246;

Bishop’s palace, drawing-room, 246

Sallyport, 15

Sanitation, 42, 74, 75, 80, 86, 142

Scawen, Sir Thomas, 258

Screens, 33, 50, 56, 94, 145, 146, 151, 210

Seaton Delaval, 242–244

Sedlescombe Manor House, 175

Sesquialtera, 246

Sesquitertia, 246

Shakespeare, William, 152;

depicts Elizabethan room, 196

Shakespeare’s “Henry IV.,” 83, 84

Sheen House, doorway, 275

Sheldons Manor House, described, 154, 155

Shell Farm, 174

Sherborne, oriel, 105

Shute, John, 206

Shutters, wooden, 13, 40, 41, 98–103;

to be painted, 43

Smithson Drawings, 152, 156, 184, 206, 223

Smithson, Huntingdon, 152

Smithson, John, 151, 152;

notes on Wimbledon House, 185;

Italian influence, 206;

plans, 210;

Henry VII.’s chapel, 222, 223

Soane Museum, 141

Solar, 24, 25, 27, 32, 34, 38, 40, 46

Somerset House, Old, 149

Southwark, High Street, house in, 218, 220

South Wingfield Manor House, 21, 61, 68–78, 80, 97, 103, 104;

doorways, 97;

gatehouses, 75;

hall, 70, 76, 78;

kitchen, 61, 65, 73, 74;

staircase, 75, 76;

undercroft, 71–73;

windows, 76, 103, 104

Sparrow’s House, Ipswich, 219

Spenser, Edmund, 125;

describes sixteenth-century palace, 138–140

Squerries, Westerham, 215

Squinch, 63

Staircases, at Boughton, 239;

at Drayton, 241, 298;

brick, 81, 124;

eighteenth century, 293–301;

Elizabethan and Jacobean, 198–203, 293;

elliptical, 298, 300;

external, 38;

newel, 8, 10, 18, 21, 51, 63, 71, 73, 75, 76, 80, 82, 104, 124;

wood, 38, 76, 200, 298

Stanton Harcourt, 60, 63, 97;

doorways, 97;

kitchen, 60, 63

Statuary in lay-out at Boughton, 239

Stephen, King, castles during reign of, 6

Stoke Bruerne, awkward planning, 225

Stokesay Castle, 35, 36–41, 42, 102, 106, 110, 119;

fireplace, 38, 110;

gatehouse, 36;

hall, 37, 38, 41;

keep, 35, 40;

roof, 37, 119;

solar, 38–40;

stairs, 38;

windows, 40, 41, 102

String-Course, 159, 160–162, 166

Sudbury Hall, 293, 295;

ceiling, 295;

doors, 295;

staircase, 293, 295

Surveyor, 205, 206

Sutton Courtney, 45

Sutton Place, Italian influence on ornament, 134

Swags, 261

Swakeleys, 216

Swan, Abraham, 266, 278

Sydenham House, 166

Symmetry, tendency towards in mediæval houses, 58, 59, 67, 68, 70, 81, 85, 86;

in disposition of plan, 127;

in Tudor houses, 137, 138;

becomes universal, 140, 142, 145, 148, 175;

effect of house depends on, 182;

growing demands of, 186;

in Palladian houses, 249

Tapestry, 125, 191, 196, 280

Tattershall Castle, 21, 78–81, 114, 124;

chimney-pieces, 80, 81, 114;

staircase, 80, 81, 124;

windows, 80

Temple Newsam, 179

Terra-Cotta, 134

Theobalds, 154

Thornbury Castle, 137, 157;

bay window, 157

Thorney Hall, panelling, 261

Thornhill, Sir James, 290

Thorpe Hall, 261, 285;

ceiling, 285

Thorpe, John, 141, 143, 147, 151, 152, 156, 157, 207, 210;

attitude to Henry VII.’s chapel, 222, 223

Thorpe’s drawings, 141–151, 156;

plans, 141–151, 157, 210

Thynne, Sir John, 206

Tiles, use of in half-timber work, 175

Tower of London, 5, 6, 57;

keep, 57

Tracery, fan, 123;

window, 26, 29, 51, 81, 94, 103;

common to ecclesiastical and domestic architecture, 29;

sparing use of, 100, 132;

elaborate, 103;

Italian influence on, 134

Transome, 29, 132

Triforium, 7, 8

Tympanum, 255

Undercroft, 55, 70, 71–73

Up Park, 215

Urns, lead, 242, 255

Vanbrugh, Sir John, 205, 234, 242–244, 274

Vernacular Work, influenced by Wren, 232

Vernon, Sir George, “King of the Peak,” 49

Verrio, 290, 292

Versailles, 239

Vestibule, 151, 210

Vicenza, villa near, 235

Victoria and Albert Museum, wood panel, 188

Vitruvius, 221, 222

“Vitruvius Britannicus,” 232, 246

Vyne, The, Hampshire, 234

Wade, General, 233

Wainscot, 124, 187

Walls, methods of covering internally, 42, 124, 125, 187–191, 259–266, 280

Walpole, Horace 233–235

Wanstead, Essex, 246–249

Ware, Isaac, 225–231, 285

Warkworth Castle, 23, 67, 81–84;

gatehouse, 81;

hall, 82, 83;

kitchen, 82, 83;

staircases, 82;

windows, 83, 84

Warwick Castle, 44

Warwick, Earl of—See “Beauchamp”

Warwick Square, house in, ceiling, 285

Webb, John, 218, 234, 259, 261, 274, 285

Wells, Deanery at, bay window, 104;

Vicars’ Close, chimney, 112

Wentworth Castle, 234

West Burton, 180

Whitehall Gardens, house at, ceiling, 288–290;

chimney-piece, 278

William III., 239, 255, 285

Williams, Charles, 206

Wilton House, double cube room, 246;

chimney-piece, 264, 266, 278;

panelling, 282

Wimbledon House, 185;

lay-out, 185

Windows, bay, 34, 58, 70, 73, 103–105, 128, 130, 132, 145, 157–159, 179, 182, 213;

dormer, 182, 214, 219, 220, 249;

glazing of, 13, 40–43, 98–100, 102, 103;

in attic storey, 229, 231;

“Italyan,” 152, 206;

mediæval, 13, 21, 29, 32, 47, 49, 50, 76, 80, 84, 98–105;

mullioned, 154, 163, 165, 166, 210, 251;

oriel, 104, 105, 132, 137;

round-headed, 216;

sash, 213–219, 241, 249, 251;

sham, 227;

square-headed, 127, 154, 157, 165, 166;

traceried, 26, 29, 51, 81, 94, 132, 134;

Tudor, 132–134

Wolsey, Cardinal, 138, 191

Wotton, Sir Henry, 204, 221, 222, 225

Wren, Sir Christopher, 205, 208, 220, 222, 232, 234, 238, 259, 274, 293

Wynne, Captain, 224

Yanwath, 45

York, Assembly Rooms at, 233

Printed at The Darien Press, Edinburgh.