GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



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side of a square walled-in enclosure, measuring 

 76.0 paces by 61, which was once a garden. 

 The building consists of two square towers with 

 a colonnade in three bays between, open on the 

 ground floor ; above this was the banqueting- 

 room, 16.3 X 14.0, covered in by a lead flat 





BOQCTEP hall: SUFFOLK: 



Fig. 49. 



with a stone parapet on both sides. The left- 

 hand tower was occupied by the staircase, which 

 communicated with the first floor and the flat ; 

 in the right-hand tower were rooms in three 

 storeys. The towers are covered with lead 

 cupolas. It is quite possible that the triangular 

 lodge at Rushton, built by Sir Thomas Tresham, 

 was intended to be used as a banqueting-house, 



