The staircases and ceilings, in all the old royal residences of this part of France, are the parts that have suffered least; many of them have still much of the life of the old time about them.
The only instance I have found in England of circular staircases to a rood loft, inside the church, is at Ely, before the old alterations of the choir.
The jubé erected by Biart is a fine work, the staircases by which it is ascended are most skilful in construction, but it is rather overloaded with ornament.
In some cases the terrace was wider in front, to give space forstaircases ascending from storey to storey.
In early work the staircases were occasionally in stone with circular or rectangular newels, but the more general type was that known as the open well staircase, with balustrade and newels in timber.
There were no sets ofstaircases on any harbour that I had ever seen.
If one of those staircases has thirty-nine steps we have solved the mystery, gentlemen,' I said.
After breakfast Scaife got from a house-agent a key for the gates of the staircases on the Ruff.
There I had a view of the line of turf along the cliff top, with seats placed at intervals, and the little square plots, railed in and planted with bushes, whence the staircases descended to the beach.
We have got to find a place where there are several staircases down to the beach, one of which has thirty-nine steps.
It's got a lot of villas on the top, and some of the houses have staircases down to a private beach.
Then we explored all the funny little staircases and passages that are everywhere about the castle, and form a perfect labyrinth.
The walls of the staircases are covered with pictures, mirrors, metronomes, which have not found a place in the interior of the divisions.
At the two ends of the hotel there were broad staircases connected with these galleries and leading from one to the other.
He found himself in a long corridor paved with stone, and having broad stone staircases leading up and down from it to the different stories.
The landing is sufficiently high above the ground-floor to give ample headway for passing underneath it; so that the space occupied by the staircases on the ground-floor is but small.
As with the theatres, its outside view presents three tiers of marble arches, and through the lowest tier are numerous staircases leading to the various sections of the seats within.
And down the four long wooden staircases the girls in kimonos and greatcoats came trooping, each one on the staircase she had been drilled to use, after she had left her room with its light burning and its corridor door shut.
There are devices such as blocking some of the staircases to train the girls for an emergency.
One of these staircases is figured in a bas-relief from Nimroud; it seems to rise to a line of battlements that form, no doubt, the parapet to a flat terrace behind.
Two staircases lead up to it, and the wall by which the whole terrace is supported and inclosed is ornamented with those vertical grooves which are such a common motive in Chaldæan architecture.
Staircases open upon it below, and many windows occupy it above.
It may be said of all the new Oxford buildings that they are apt to be heavy within, owing a good deal to the fear of fire that makes all the staircases of stone.
In the capital, those who formerly were accustomed to have their court yards nightly filled with carriages, and their staircases lined with lacqueys, are now scarcely able to occupy one third of their noble abodes.
The two grand staircases are very fine, and there is a noble garden behind.
On one of the staircases is an interesting picture of Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, in a turban, with the favourite spaniel who appears in many of her portraits.
There are four staircases leading up to it, and a regular rabbit-warren between the beams of the roof and the wainscoting, where if needs be he could run in case of danger.
The great oak staircases had fantastic newels and balusters, and around the panelled hall was a fixed oak settle, and armour on the walls: carved oak cabinets and chairs, and tables.
There are two huge oak staircases running up to the top of the house, where is the old gallery or ballroom, with a coved ceiling of ornamented plaster-work, and above the mullioned windows grotesque monster heads devised in the pargeting.
It has a fine inner court, with sumptuous staircases of slabbed stone leading to the church.
Staircases to the balcony are located along the north and south walls of the central section.
This railing, similar to those of the staircases and balcony, stands 2 feet 8-1/2 inches high.
No dates for the original installation or removal of these staircases were determined, and it was presumed that the dual staircases were part of the original design of the courthouse.
As the side walls were cleared of plaster, they showed signs of staircases from the ground level the balcony along the north as well as the south side of the courtroom.
Entry into this section is along two aisles at the sides, running between the spectator seats in the center of the room and the balcony staircases set against the walls on the north and south sides of the room.
Behind the proscenium is a large space with staircases of approach, two windows at the rear, and apparently a fireplace for the comfort of the waiting players.
The onlystaircases which could have served it are at the rear of the building in the corners behind the stage wall.
To "build two staircases without and adjoining to the said playhouse .
And the staircases thereof to be sufficiently enclosed without with lath, lime, and hair.
And the said frame, stage, and staircases to be covered with tile.
Which stage shall be placed and set (as also the staircases of the said frame) in such sort as is prefigured in a plot thereof drawn.
This done, he extinguished the solar lamp; put it out of sight; desired me once more to follow him; and led the way back along the same labyrinth of staircases and corridors by which he brought me.
The gallery thus formed is approached by two staircases constructed at the same time[503].
The edifice must have stood on the very edge of the platform, the foot of which was at that time washed by the river, which had five massive staircases leading to the river.
On the right and left of this court were six or more store-rooms, a small receiving or waiting room at two of the corners, and at the other end the staircases which led to the upper stories.
But I didn't know," said Doris, "that staircaseshad patron saints.
But she wasn't conceited, because she knew that she had been helped by a little saint with a crooked back, who served God by keeping an eye on all the staircases in the world.
You see, I once fell down a staircase myself, two or three years after staircaseswere invented.
They climbed spiral staircases for a level or two before descending again, and examined the connections of tubes, pipes, and circuits.
There were catwalks, elevators, and enclosed spiral staircases in strategic places.
The approaches, staircases and corridors are all handsome and spacious.
The interiors had fine oak staircases with turned and twisted balusters, and were good examples of the cheery home-like dwellings of their time.
Bedford Row is a very quiet, broad thoroughfare lined by eighteenth-century houses of considerable height and size, which for the most part still retain their noble staircases and well-proportioned rooms.
They rose and descended the broad staircases to the terrace facing the sea, a terrace filled with tables and chairs.
There were times when she thought she was an empress walking down ivory staircases strewn with slaughtered slaves.
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