On the other hand, hypocausts were regularly paved with tiles, as in the Baths of Caracalla (Fig.
It was also largely employed in baths and bathrooms, the object being both to keep the walls dry and to allow hot air to circulate from the hypocausts and warm the rooms.
The pillars of the floors of hypocausts were formed of tegulae bessales, and sometimes also of two semicircular bricks joined so as to form a circle, varying from 6 to 15 inches in diameter.
Two new hypocausts were inserted and extra rooms and a long corridor or verandah built at the back.
Similar rude hypocausts were opened some years ago in my presence at Eastbourne.
The wall-paintings and mosaics may be poorer in Britain, the hypocausts more numerous; the things themselves are those of the south.
Hypocausts and painted stucco, copied, though crudely, from Roman originals, have been discovered in poor houses and in mean villages.
Hypocausts ceased to be used, and were no longer built.
The celebrated baths (club-rooms) of ancient Rome were heated by means of hypocausts with excellent results.
There were no hypocaustsbeneath to warm the rooms to Summer heat; these, small and bare as cells, were always cold.
To the left of the entrance were the kitchens, with stoves, and with hypocausts beneath them.
Away to his right, down a narrow pitch-black tunnel, were the walls of the hypocausts behind which fires roared and ravened.
V That day Nicanor had been assigned by Hito to the squad of the fire slaves, whose duty it was to tend the fires of the hypocausts which warmed the guest apartments, the rooms of the master's family, the banquet halls, and the baths.
Footnote 102: This circumstance, together with the fact, that all the camps of the Barrier abound in stones reddened with fire, is confirmatory of the view, that the buildings supplied with hypocausts were not necessarily baths.
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