Strawberry-hill (1774) [ Places / Objects / People ]
… You first enter a small gloomy hall, paved with hexagon tyles, and lighted by two narrow windows of painted glass, representing saint John and saint Francis. This hall is united with the staircase, and both are hung with a gothic … Vere, earl of Oxford. Turning to the left, through a small passage, on one side of which is a window entirely of painted glass, you enter The REFECTORY, or GREAT PARLOUR. It is thirty feet long, twenty wide, and twelve high; hung with paper …
Aesthetics | Gothic
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