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CHAPTER III. THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

GENERAL REMARKS.-Hall at Winchester.-Reign of Henry

III. remarkable for the progress of architecture.-Condition of

Norman castles in the thirteenth century.-Plan of manor-houses

at this date.-House built for Edward I. at Woolmer, Hants.-

Description of house at Toddington, by M. Paris.-Meaning of

term Palatium.-Longthorpe.-Stoke Say castle.-West Deane,

Sussex.-Aydon castle.-Little Wenham Hall.-Two halls at

Westminster, temp. Henry III.-Temporary buildings erected

at Westminster for the coronation of Edward I.-Private hos-

pitality in this century.-Kitchens.-Wardrobes.-Influence of

feudal manners on Domestic architecture.-Building materials.

-Wood extensively used. Manor-house of timber engraved on a

personal seal.-Extensive use of plaster.-Roofs of the thirteenth

century.-Windows.-Glass and glazing.-Digression on the

history of glass-making in England.-No glass made in England

until the fifteenth century.-Wooden lattices, fenestrals, &c.-

Fire-places and chimneys.-Mantels.-Staircases, external and

internal.-Internal decoration of houses.-Wainscote.-Poly-

chrome.-Artists of the time of Henry III.; their style. Their

names. Spurs.-Screens &c.-Tapestry not used in private

dwellings in the thirteenth century. Flooring.-Tiles.-Baths.

-Cameræ privatæ.-Conduits and drains.-Houses in towns.-

Parisian houses.-Other foreign examples.-Furniture.-Car-

pets.-General state of England in the thirteenth century.-

State of towns.-London and Winchester compared.—Travell-

ing.-Hackneymen.-Inns.-State of trade in England.—Agri-

culture.-Remarks on horticulture.
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THIRTEENTH CENTURY. EXISTING REMAINS.

Aydon castle, Northumberland.-Godmersham, Kent.-Little
Wenham Hall, Suffolk. Longthorpe, near Peterborough.-
Charney Basset, Berks.-Master's House, St. John's Hospital,

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LIST OF PLATES.

HALL of Oakham castle, Rutland, interior

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Frontispiece.

House with external staircase.-Cooking in the open air.

From the Bayeux Tapestry

Appleton, Berks, doorway of the hall

Examples of roofs, tiles, and shingles; taken from manuscripts,

two plates

Battlements, from MSS.

Iron-work on doors, from MSS., two plates

Coloured exteriors of houses, from MSS. and Bayeux tapestry
Fire-place, Colchester castle, Essex

Fire-place, Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire. Fire-place, Rochester

castle, Kent

Examples of furniture, beds, cradle, seat, and drapery; from MSS.
Furniture: seats, footstools, and curtains; from MSS., and

Bayeux tapestry, three plates

Hall of Oakham castle, south-east view.

Ground-plan

Windows and principal doorway

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Capitals of pillars and south-east corbel

Hipknobs, springstone, and section

Town wall, Southampton. Plan of house adjoining

Interior and exterior of the same

House at Minster, Isle of Thanet

Christ-church, Hampshire, house at

Part of St. Mary's Guild, Lincoln

The Jews' House, Lincoln

Staircase, leading to the Registry at Canterbury
Plan of house at Warnford, Hants

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