Chapter IV: Introduction

The Romans in England--Their Villas and Houses--Ordinary Plan of a
Roman House--Method of Building--The Saxons--Their Style of Building;
they probably occupied Roman Houses--A Saxon Hall--Houses of Winchester
and London in the Saxon Period--Decoration of Buildings--Romanesque
Style of Architecture introduced during the Saxon Period--Drawings in
Saxon MSS., their Character and Value as Architectural Evidence--The
Greek, or Byzantine School; its Influence on Saxon Art--Antiquity of
Chimneys; None at Rome in the Fourteenth Century--Character of the
Military Buildings of the Saxons--The Castles of Coningsburgh and
Bamborough later than the Saxon Period--Arundel, the only Castle said
to have been standing in the time of the Confessor--Norman
Castles--Domestic Architecture of the Normans--Stone Quarries--Use of
Plaster--Bricks and Tiles--Brickmaking, its Antiquity in
England--Masons and other Workmen--Glazing--Iron Works in
England--Architectural Designs of the Middle Ages, how made--Working
Moulds of Masons, &c.