. Domestic architecture, being a series of designs, for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiff's lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park-gate lodges, etc., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English style of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site, the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy, the whole being the result of upwards of thirty years professional experience : with accurate es
. Domestic architecture, being a series of designs, for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiff's lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park-gate lodges, etc., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English style of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site, the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy, the whole being the result of upwards of thirty years professional experience : with accurate estimates appended to each design. London Jrrthe Aafhm, £ - PABSONAGE HOUSE. DESIGN No. 5. There is no term, perhaps, by which to designate a particular structure,that at once excites in the cultivated mind more pleasing associations,than that of the Parsonage House; a domicile indeed, which seemssanctified to our best feelings, in the very name; for recurring- to ourearliest impressions, we still cherish the idea, that the Parsonage is theMansion of Peace: such indeed it was intended to be, and such it reallyis, when inhabited by a pious minister, possessing a competency, whodoing his duty in the wisdom and meekness of his holy mission, livespeaceably and happily in the midst of his congregation. The architect is seldom at a loss for a site whereon to erect the residenceof a parish priest, for, his legitimate home, is near the House of God;hence, wherever there is an ancient church, and what provincial parishis without one ? there almost certainly will be found a rural, and desirablesite for a parsonage. For civil purposes, public or privat
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