. London . itchens, butteries, and pantries. Be-yond this front is to be a fair court, but three sides of itof a far lower building than the front. And in all the fourcorners of the court fair staircases, cast into turrets on theoutside, and not within the row of buildings themselves. . .Let the court not be paved, for that striketh up a great heatin summer and much cold in winter. But only some sidealleys with a cross, and the quarters to graze being kept TUDOR 223 shorn, but not too near shorn. Stately galleries withcoloured windows are to run along the banquet side ; onthe household side, c
. London . itchens, butteries, and pantries. Be-yond this front is to be a fair court, but three sides of itof a far lower building than the front. And in all the fourcorners of the court fair staircases, cast into turrets on theoutside, and not within the row of buildings themselves. . .Let the court not be paved, for that striketh up a great heatin summer and much cold in winter. But only some sidealleys with a cross, and the quarters to graze being kept TUDOR 223 shorn, but not too near shorn. Stately galleries withcoloured windows are to run along the banquet side ; onthe household side, chambers of presence and ordinaryentertainments, with bedchambers. Beyond this court isto be a second of the same square, with a garden anda cloister. Other directions he gives which, if they werecarried out, would make a very fine house indeed. ButthesQ we may pass over. In short, Bacons idea of agood;, house was much like a college. That of Clare,Cambridge, for instance, would have been considered by -a-. 1 ICU! Up - ^j OLD TAVERN Bacon as a very good house indeed, though the arrange-ment of the banqueting-room was not exactly as thephilosopher would have it. The College of Christs in its oldform, with the garden square beyond, was still more after themanner recommended by Bacon. It will be seen that we are now a good way removedfrom the Saxon Hall with the people sleeping on the floor,yet Bacons house lineally descends from that the old houses in London were built in this way, as maybe illustrated by many which retain the old form, as well as 22 | LONDON by those which remain. Hampton Court, for instance, builtby Wolsey ; Northumberland Mouse, recently taken down;
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