History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c19.s17.35

v1.c19.s17.35

The principal building now left, as shown in Woodcuts Nos. 244 and 245, presents a well-balanced façade of three storeys surmounted by turrets which pleasingly break the sky-line. Each floor consists mainly of a pillared hall—the piers arched across both ways, corbelled at the angles and closed with flat domes. The floors have projections of 6 or 7 ft. beyond the face of the outer pillars and rest on stone corbels. On the north side the walls pierced by the arches are built of brick; but the vaults, especially in the lower storey, are worked in stone from stone corbels. No ornament now appears above the basement, and how the exterior of the building was first