A

• Abingdon Abbey, 41, 42, 103, 110;
• chimney-shaft, 110;
• fireplace, 42, 110;
• guest-house, 42;
• prior’s room, 41;
• treatment of walls, 42;
• windows, 42, 103
• Adam, the Brothers, 238, 274, 278, 290
• Adam, Robert, 238
• Aldrich, Dean, 234
• Alignment, 70
• Alnwick Castle, 44, 100, 102;
• windows, 100, 102
• Amateur Architects, 223–229, 233, 234
• Amateur Spirit among professional architects, 235
• Amorini, 134, 137, 197
• Anne, Queen, 266
• Apartments named by Chaucer, 45–47, 140;
• by Spenser, 139, 140;
• in Thorpe’s plans, 141, 142;
• in Smithson’s plans, 152
• Apethorpe Hall, 194, 203;
• plaster panel from ceiling, 194;
• long gallery, 203, 204
• Arabesque on mullions, 133, 134;
• on panelling, 187
• “Architecture of A. Palladio,” by G. Leoni, 235
• Arras, 125, 139, 191
• Astley Hall, long gallery, 204
• Aston Hall, 151, 210;
• planning, 151, 210;
• vestibule, 151, 210
• Audley End, extent of, 154
• Aydon Castle, 36, 91, 111, 114;
• chimney-shaft, 111;
• doorway, 91;
• fireplaces, 111, 114;
• precautions for defence, 36

B

• Baguley Hall, timber hall, 45
• Ball-Flowers, 94
• Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, 210, 222
• Barlborough Hall, 179
• Basing House, fall of, 221
• Bay Windows, Elizabethan and Jacobean, 145, 157–159, 179, 182, 213;
• mediæval, 58, 103–105;
• Tudor, 128, 130, 132
• Beauchamp, Thomas, Earl of Warwick, 44
• Beaufort House, Chelsea, 147
• Bedrooms, 142, 204, 212, 246
• Belsay Castle, 22
• Bitchfield Tower, 22
• Blenheim Palace, 154, 234, 237, 244;
• extent of, 154, 244;
• Pope’s criticism on, 237
• Bodiam Castle, 35, 36
• Bolection Mouldings, at Boughton House, 262
• Bolt, Wood, at Stanton Harcourt, 97
• Boughton House, 239, 242, 262, 282, 292;
• ceilings, 239, 292;
• French feeling, 239;
• furniture, 239;
• lay-out, 239;
• panelling, 239, 262, 282;
• staircases, 239
• Bower, 45, 47
• Brad Street, house at, 175
• Bramhall Hall, 173
• Brettingham, Matthew, 266
• Brickwork, 79, 80, 81, 86, 124, 134, 169;
• diaper in, 86, 134
• Britton, J., 223
• Brome Hall, 182;
• chimney-stacks, 182;
• dormers, 182;
• gardens, 182;
• porch, 182;
• symmetrical arrangement, 182
• Broughton Castle, 44
• Brympton D’Evercy, bay window, 104
• Buckhurst House, 154
• Buckingham Street, Strand, house in, 264, 285;
• ceiling, 285;
• panelling, 262, 264;
• residence of Peter the Great, 264
• Burford, Vicarage at, 220;
• roof and windows, 220
• Burghley House, 60, 65, 66, 154;
• kitchen, 60, 65, 66
• Burghley, Lord, 66, 154, 185
• Burlington, Earl of, 233, 235, 237, 244
• Burlington Street, house in, 233;
• Lord Chesterfield’s advice concerning, 233
• Burroughs, Sir James, 234
• Burton Agnes, 155
• Burwash, Sussex, house at, 250, 251, 272;
• chimneys and windows, 251;
• door, 272
• Butchers’ Guild, Hereford, hall of, chimney-piece, 198

C

• Calgarth Old Hall, panelling, 189
• Campbell, Colin, 232, 235, 246, 249
• Canons Ashby, coved ceiling, 193
• Cardigan, Lord, 27
• Cark Hall, doorway, 268, 272
• Carshalton House, 258;
• gates, 258;
• railings, 258
• Carter, J., 223
• Cartouche of arms, 261
• Carving, stone, at Oakham Castle, 33;
• wood, 198, 262, 266, 274–277, 282
• Castle Ashby, lettered parapet, 179
• Castle Hedingham, 5, 6, 7–13, 91, 100, 106, 109, 114;
• doorway, 91;
• fireplace, 8, 10, 12, 106;
• floors, 114;
• gallery, 7, 10;
• orifice, 109;
• windows, 10, 13, 100;
• wooden shutters, 13;
• roof, 8, 114;
• staircase, 8, 10
• Castle Howard, 154, 234, 244;
• extent of, 154, 244
• Castles, Norman, 1–6
• Castle Rising, 5, 6
• Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 147
• Ceilings, coved, 192, 193, 241;
• Elizabethan and Jacobean, 191–194, 196, 197, 203, 204, 282;
• late seventeenth century and eighteenth century, 241, 282, 292;
• mediæval, 87, 88, 114, 116, 119, 122, 123;
• painted, 239, 290–292
• Central Hearth, 27, 32, 70, 106–109, 280
• Chacombe Priory, windows, 100, 101
• Chapel, 6, 30, 49, 82, 145, 146, 152, 241, 244
• Charles I., 203
• Charles II. encourages architecture, 221;
• arms of, in plaster, 220;
• Sir John Denham, Surveyor of Works to, 234;
• brings Verrio to England, 290
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, description of fourteenth-century house, 45–47;
• compared with Spenser’s, 140
• Chesterfield, Lord, 233
• Chimneys, Elizabethan and Jacobean (1603), 169, 179, 182, 210, 213, 249;
• mediæval, 109–112;
• late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 214, 249, 251;
• Tudor, 164
• Chimney-Piece, eighteenth century, 275–278;
• Elizabethan and Jacobean, 195–198, 277;
• mediæval, 40, 80, 81, 114
• Chipchase Castle, 22
• Chiswick, villa at, by Lord Burlington, 233
• Chute, Mr, 234
• Civil Wars, effect of, on South Wingfield, 76;
• on house-building, 221
• Clarke, Dr, 234
• Cocklaw Tower, colour decoration at, 21
• Colchester Castle, fireplace, 109
• Cold Ashton Manor House, walled garden, 179
• Cold Overton, 201, 220;
• dog-gate, 201, 220;
• porch, 220;
• staircase, 220;
• windows, 220
• Coles Farm, Box, plaster frieze, 282
• Coleshill, 212–215;
• chimneys, 214;
• roof, 214;
• windows, 213, 214
• Colour Decoration, 21, 42, 43, 187, 290–292
• Combe Abbey, doorway, 274
• “Complete Body of Architecture,” by Isaac Ware, 225, 226, 227
• Conisborough Castle, chapel, 6
• Conway, General, 234
• “Cook’s Tale of Gamelyn,” 45
• Cornice, classic, 127, 159–163, 165, 169, 193, 195, 216, 219, 220, 224, 239, 266, 268, 274, 290, 292;
• projecting, 214, 249;
• wood, at Lyddington, 121, 123
• Corridor, beginnings of, 145, 146;
• becomes general, 152;
• lack of at Boughton, 239
• Cothele House, great hall, 35
• Cotswolds, manor houses of, 155
• “Counter-hauriant,” 132–134
• Cowdray House, tendency towards symmetry, 67;
• gatehouse at, 131
• Cowper, William, 280
• Crenellate, licence to, 44
• Crewe Hall, staircase, 201
• Crockets, 94
• Cromwell, Ralph, Lord Treasurer, 68, 78, 81

D

• Dado, 259, 262, 266
• Daïs, 26, 33, 35, 58, 141, 145, 151
• Deene Park, central hearth, 27, 106;
• chimney-piece, 197
• Defence, precautions for, in fortified manor houses, 29, 30, 35, 36, 88–91, 92;
• keeps, 3, 10, 14, 88–91;
• mediæval manor houses, 47, 51, 76, 84–86, 88–91;
• Tudor manor houses, 131, 139;
• at Kenilworth, 53;
• less need for, 86, 113;
• treatment of windows, 98, 103;
• abandonment of, 143;
• reminiscence of, 145
• Denham, Sir John, 234
• Derwent Hall, 169
• “Designs of Architecture,” by Abraham Swan, 266, 278
• “Designs of Inigo Jones,” by William Kent, 229–231
• De Veres, Earls of Oxford, 12
• Diaper—See under “Brickwork”
• Dog-gate, 201, 220
• Dog-grate, 282
• Dog-tooth, 33
• Dolphins, Floriated, 132, 133
• Doorways, external, at Drayton, 241;
• eighteenth century, 272–274;
• Jacobean, 268–272;
• mediæval, 88–98
• Doorways, internal, eighteenth century, 274, 275;
• Elizabethan and Jacobean, 195, 274
• Dormers, 182, 214, 219, 220, 249
• Dover Castle, keep, 5
• Drayton House, 44, 119, 239–242, 255, 298;
• alterations, 241, 242;
• boudoir, 241;
• ceiling, 241;
• gardens, 241, 242;
• ironwork, 241, 242, 255;
• long gallery, 241;
• roof, 119, 241;
• staircases, 241, 298;
• windows, 241
• Drayton, Simon de, 44

E

• East Barsham, 134, 137
• Eastbury, Dorset, 242
• Eastington, doorway, 97
• Easton Hall, ironwork, 255, 256
• Ecclesiastical Architecture, compared with domestic, 28, 29, 33, 87, 100, 103, 118
• Edward VI., 27, 108
• Egg-and-tongue Ornament, 133, 134
• “Elements of Architecture,” by Sir Henry Wotton, 204, 222
• Elizabeth, Queen, sanitation in days of, 75;
• the staircase, 76, 124, 198, 202;
• house builders in reign of, 78, 154;
• increase of comfort under, 127
• Elizabethan Designer, 58, 103, 114
• Elizabethan House—See under “Manor House”
• Elizabethan Planning—See under “Planning”
• Eltham Palace, doorway, 95;
• roof, 119, 121
• Entablature, 164, 165, 229
• Evelyn, John, 221, 222
• Ewelme, School at, doorway, 97
• Exeter, Earl of, 185
• Extinguisher, 258
• Eyam Hall, walled garden, 179

F

• “Faerie Queene,” 138, 139
• Fanlight, 272, 273
• Fan Tracery, 123
• Fawsley, Northants, 104, 114;
• bay window, 104;
• chimney-piece, 114;
• staircase, 104
• Felbrigge Hall, 169, 176, 179;
• parapet, 179;
• porch, 268
• Fenton House, Hampstead, sensible planning at, 250
• Fireplace, mediæval, 10, 12, 21, 27, 35, 38, 40, 42, 58, 61, 70, 74, 80, 83, 87, 88, 105–114;
• sixteenth century, 130, 148, 186;
• absence of, 27, 32
• Fitzosborne, Sir Thomas, letter of, 236, 237
• Fitzwilliam, Earl, 234
• French Influence at Boughton House, 239
• Frieze, 165, 229, 231, 274, 282
• Furniture, 140, 239, 241

G

• Gallery, 7, 10, 50;
• long, 49, 50, 138–140, 142, 145, 152, 202, 203, 204, 210, 241;
• minstrels’, 26
• Gardens, 49, 179–182, 184, 185, 239, 241, 242, 255
• Garden design, 184, 185
• Garden, orange, 185;
• sunk, 185, 239;
• walled, 179–182
• Garde-robe, 7, 18, 42, 68, 75, 80, 86;
• pit, 21;
• tower, 58
• Gascelyn Family, builders of Sheldons, 154
• Gatehouse, 3, 35, 36, 37, 46, 75, 81, 84–86, 90, 94, 131, 139
• Gate Piers, 155, 255, 258
• Gates, iron, 241, 251, 255, 256, 258
• Gayhurst, 179, 268;
• gables, 179;
• parapet, 179;
• porch, 268;
• roof, 179
• George I., 237
• George II., 255
• Georgian Houses, 108, 223, 266
• Gibbons, Grinling, 262
• Gibbs, James, 229, 231, 234, 278
• Glastonbury, Abbot’s kitchen, 60, 61–63;
• the Hall, staircase, 295, 298;
• street front at, 105
• Godalming, doorway, 272
• Grate, Fire, 111, 280, 282
• Great Chalfield, oriel, 104
• Great Chamber, 82, 142, 145, 152, 210
• Great Queen Street, street front, 218