Arthur Stratton · Series VI. Rectangular Plans Disposed for Internal Effect
Plate XXXIX. Rectangular Halls with a Gallery on One Side Only
Plate XXXIX. — The provision of a gallery on one side only is occasionally called for in the planning of council chambers, large halls in country houses and rooms lighted from one side. Fig. I shows an effective arrangement of columns screening a gallery and subsidiary corridor below: this arrangement has to some extent been happily followed by Sir Christopher Wren in the design of some of the City churches. In Fig. II a rectangular plan is shown with the addition of a gallery at one end, an arrangement which lends itself to fine internal effect. A feature is made of the clerestorey which is formed in a groined cove supporting the flat ceiling. Special emphasis is given to the junction of the gallery with the side walls by the manipulation of the end bay.
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