d Value as Architectural Evidence--The
Greek, or Byzantine School; its Influence on Saxon Art--Antiquity of
Chimneys; None at Rome in the Fourteenth Century--Character of the
Military Buildings of the Saxons--The Castles of Coningsburgh and
Bamborough later than the Saxon Period--Arundel, the only Castle said
to have been standing in the time of the Confessor--Norman
Castles--Domestic Architecture of the Normans--Stone Quarries--Use of
Plaster--Bricks and Tiles--Brickmaking, its Antiquity in
England--Masons and other Workmen--Glazing--Iron Works in
England--Architectural 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; their
Nature--General Plan of Houses at this Date--Halls--Other Apartments of
Ordinary Houses--Bedchamber, Kitchen, Larder, &c.--King's Houses at
Clarendon and other Places--Hall, always the Chief Feature of a Norman
House--Alexander Necham, his Description of a House--Plan of Norman
Halls--Their Roofs--Situation of other Apartments relatively to the
Hall--Kitchens--Cooking in the Open Air--Bayeux Tapestry--Remains of a
Norman House at Appleton, Berks--Fences, Walls, &c.--Some Norman Houses
built in the form of a Parallelogram, and of Two Stories--Boothby
Pagnell, Lincolnshire--Christ Church, Hants--Jews' House at
Lincoln--Moyses' Hall, Bury St. Edmund's--Staircases, Internal and
External--External Norman Stair at Canterbury--Houses at
Southampton--Building Materials--Use of Lead for Roofs--English Lead
exported to France--Style of Norman Roofs--Metal Work; Hinges, Locks,
Nail-heads, &c.--Gloucester celebrated for its Iron
Manufactures--External Decoration of
Buildings--Windows--Glazing--Fire-places--Kitchens open in the
Roof--Hostelry of the Prior of Lewes--Internal Walls
Plastered--Furniture of Houses, Tapestry, &c--Floors generally of
Wood--Character London Houses in the Twelfth Century--Assize of 1189
regulating Buildings in London--Assize of the Year 1212 relating to the
same Subject--- Majority of London Houses chiefly of Wood and
Thatched--Wages of Workmen--Cookshops on Thames Side--Chimneys not
mentioned in the London Assizes, &c.

CHAPTER II.--EXISTING REMAINS.

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