DOORWAYS 



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FIG. 282. Doorway at Godmersham Park, Kent. 



in Kent (Fig. 282), where the broken pediment affords space 

 for the central feature of a design modelled in high relief. As 

 here, so in many other instances, the door is of mahogany and 

 the surrounding woodwork is painted white. The example 

 from Honington Hall, in Warwickshire (Fig. 283); not only 

 shows an important doorway, but also the domed and coffered 

 ceiling of a lofty room, as well as walls with panels of plaster, 

 and large pendants of fruit and birds in the manner of Grinling 

 Gibbons. In houses of the early part of the eighteenth century 

 there was often one room occupying two stories in height ; 

 sometimes it was the hall, sometimes, as in this case, a saloon 

 or drawing-room. 



In smaller houses were such doorways as that at Bourdon 



