ABSTRACT
In all designs for the interior of residences upon a very large scale, it always has been, and still continues to be, the practice to devote some part to the display of architectural magnificence. It is almost disgusting, and in fact, impossible with patience, to pass from these to the minutiae of criticism, and that too, when all the great objects for which the fabric was intended, have been so successfully attained and so universally acknowledged. Towers were erected or heightened to create chambers; and offices, on the plan of those at Glastonbury Abbey, were designed for the greater convenience of the inhabitants. All attempts to warm the Great Hall sufficiently for its intended use as a Refec-tory, proving ineffectual, the apartment was finally devoted to the less important, though more effective purpose, of a State Entrance to the Chapel.
