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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 80. 



In a few days will be published, in One handsome Volume 8vo., profusely Illustrated with Engravings by Jewitt, 



^o\m Account of ©omrijtif ^rrjitrfttire m O^ncjlanti; 



TftE CONQUEST TO THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. 



WITH 



NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS OF EXISTING REMAINS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. 



By T. HUDSON TURNER. 



Tlie Table of Contents of tbis Volume will best explain its Object. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The Romans in England— Their Villas and Houses — Ordi- 

 nary Plan ofa Roman Umise — Method nf liuilding — The Saxons 



— Their .Style of liniUling ; they iirohably occnpitd Roman 

 Hou-es — ASaxon Hall — Houses of Winchi'ster and London in 

 the Saxon Period — Decoration of Buildings — Romanesque Style 

 of Ardiitecture introduced during the Saxon Period — Drawings 

 in Saxon MSS., tlieir Character and Value as Architectural 

 Evidence — The Greek, or Byzantine Scliool ; its Influence on 

 Saxnn Art — Antiquity of Chimneys ; None at Rome in the Four- 

 teen tli Century — Ctiaractcr of I he Military liuildings of the Saxons 

 _ The Castles of Coningsbnrgh and liamhoroiigh later than the 

 Saxon Period — Arundel, the only Cattle said to have been stand-. 

 ing in the time ot the Confessor — Norman Castles — Domestic 

 Architecture of the Normans — Stone Quarries — Use of Plaster 



— Brides and Tiles — Hriciiniaking, its .\ntiqnity in England — 

 JIasons and other Worknien—tJIazing — lron,\Vorks in England — 

 Arcliitectural Designs of the Middle Ages, how made — Working 

 Moulds of Masons, &c. 



CHAPTER I.— TWELFTH CENTURY. 



General Remarks — Imperfect Character of existing Remains of 

 the Twelfth Century — .Materials for the History of Domestic 

 Architecture ; tlieir Nature — General Plan of Houses at this 

 Date — Hails — Ctlier Apartments of Ordinary Houses — Bed- 

 chamber, Kitchen, Lard-r, iVc. — King's Houses at Clarendon 

 anil other Places — Hall, always the Chief Feature of a Norman 

 House — .\lexander Necham, his Descri)Hion of a House — Plan 

 of Norman Halls — Their Roofs — Situatnm of other Apartments 

 relaiiiely to the Hall — Kitchens — Cooking in tlie Open Air — 

 IJayeux Tapestry — Remains ofa Norman House at Appleton, 

 Berks — Fences. Walls, ivc — Some Norman Houses built in the 

 form ofa Paiallelograni, and of Two Stories — Boothby Pagnell, 

 Lincolnshire — Chiist Churcit, Hanis — .lews' House at Lincoln — 

 IVIoyses' II. dl, Bury .St. Edmund's — Staircases, Internal and Ex-- 

 ternal— External Norman Stair at Canterbury — Houses at Sonth- 

 ampton — Building Materials — Use of Le.ad lor Uoofs — English 

 Lead exported to France — Style of Norman Koofs— Metal Work ; 

 Hinges. Locks, Nail-heads, etc. — Gloucester celebrated for its 

 Iron M.anulaclures — External Decoration of Buildings— Windows 



— Glazing' — Fire-places — Kitchens open in the Roof — Hostelry 

 of the Prior of Le^es — Internal Walls Plastered — Furniture of 

 Houses, Tapestry, &c — Floors, generally of W^ood — Character 

 London Houses in the Twelfth Century — Assize of 11.S9 regulating 

 Buildings in London — Assize of the Year 12I2 relating to the 

 same Subject — INIajoritv of London Houses chiefly of Wood and 

 Tliatched — Wages of Workmen — Cookshops on Tliames Side — 

 Chimneys not mentioned in the London Assizes, \c. 



CHAPTER IL— EXISTING REMAINS. 

 O.ikham Castle, lUitl.uidshire — The King's House, South- 

 ampton—Minster, Isle of Thanet — Christ Church, Hants — 

 Manor-house at .Appleton — Sutton Courtney, Berks — St. Mary's 

 Guild, and Jews' Houses, Lincoln — Staircase. Canterbury — 

 Warnford, Hants — Fountain's .■ibliey- Priory. Dover — Moy'ses' 

 Hall, Bnry St. Edmnnd's — Hostelry of the Prior of Lewes, 

 Souihwark — Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire — Barnack, Noith- 

 amptimshire — School of Pythagoras, Cambridge — Notes on 

 Remains of Early Domestic Architecture in France. 



CHAPTER 111.— THIRTEENTH CENTURY. 

 General Remarks— Hall at Winchester— Reign of Henry III. 

 remarkable fur the Progress of -Architecture — Condition of Nor- 



man Castles in the Thirteenth Century — Plan of Manor-honscs 

 at this Date — House built for Edward 1. at Woolmer, Hants — 

 Description of House at Toddington, by M. Paris — Meaning of 

 term .Pii/atium — Longthorpe, Stoke-S.iy Castle — West Deane, 

 Sussex— Aydon Castle — Little Wenham Hall — Two Halls at 

 Westminster, temp Henry III. — Temporary Buildings erected 

 at Westminster for tlie Coronation of lodward 1. — Private Hos- 

 pitality in tbis Century — Kiiehens — Wardrobe= — Influence of 

 Feudal M.tnners on Domestic .-Vrchitecture — Building Materials 



— Wood extensively used— Jlanor- house of Timber engraved on 

 a Personal Seal — Extensive Use of Piaster — Roofs of the Thir- 

 teenth 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, Fenes- 

 tr.ils, &c Fire-places and Chimneys — Mantels — Staircases, Ex- 

 ternal and Interna] — Internal Decoration ot Houses — Wainscote 

 ■ — P(dyehrome— Artists of the Time of Henry HI. ; their Style — 

 Their Names — Spurs. Screens, ^-c. — Tapestry not used in Private 

 Dwellings in the Tliirteenth Centurj'. Flooring — Tiles — Batiis 

 Camera; Privata? — Conduits and Drains — Houses in Towns — 

 Parisian Houses — Other Foreign Examples — Furniture — Carpets 

 — General State of England in the Thirteenth Century — State 

 of Towns — London and Winclicster compared — Iravelling — 

 Hackneyinen — Inns — State of Trade in England — -Agriculture — 

 Remarks on Horticulture. 



CHAPTER IV.— THIRTEENTH CENTURY.— EXISTING 

 REMAINS. 

 Aydon Castl?, Northumberland — Godmersham, Kent — Little 

 Wenham Hall, Suft'olk— Longthorpe, near Peterborough — Cliar- 

 ney Basset, Berks— Master's House, St. John's Hosjiital, Nonli- 

 .auiptcm— Stoke--'say Castle, Shropshire — Coggs, Oxfordshire — 

 Cottesford, Oxfrd'hire— Parsonage House, West Tarring, Sussex 



— Archdeacon's House, Peterborough — Crowhurst, Sussex — 

 Bishop's Palace, W'ells — Woodcro't Castle, Northamptonshire — 

 Old Rectory House, West Deane, Sussex — Acton Burnell, Shrop- 

 shire— Somerton Castle, Lincolnshire — Old Soar, Kent — The 

 King's H.ill at Windiestcr— The Priory. Winchester— Stranger's 

 Hall, Winchester — House at Oakham, known as Flore's House 

 —Thame, Oxfordshire— Chipping- Norton, Oxfordshire— Middle- 

 ton Cheney, Oxfordshire— Sutton Courtney, Berkshire. 



CHAPTER v.— HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Extracts from th- Lil)eratc Rolls of Henry HI., 1229 — 12.59, 

 relating to the following places : — 

 Bridgenorth — Brigstock — Brill — Bristol — Canterbury — 

 Clarendon— Cliff— Clipstone — Corfe Castle — Dover — Dublin 



EveresKcll — Feckenham — Fr. emantle — Geddington — 



Gillingb'm — Gloucester — Guildford — Havering— Hereford — 

 Hertford — Kenningt' n — Litchfield — London, ( Tower) —Ely 

 House — Ludgersball — Marlborough — Newcastlr? — North- 

 ampton — Nottingham — Oxford — Rochester — Sherbourn — 

 Silverstone — Westminster — Winchester — Windsor — Wood- 

 stock. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES OF FOREIGN EXAMPLES. 



General Remarks — Treves — Laon — Ratisbon — Gondorf— 

 Metz — Toulouse — Laon — Br^e — Coucy — Garden — Tours — 

 Angers- Fonievr.iult, (Kitchen) — Perigueux — St. Emilion — 

 Mont St. Michel — lieauvais. 



APPENDIX OF DOCUMENTS. 



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