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The solar was a room in many English and French medieval manor houses, great houses and castles, generally situated on an upper storey, designed as the family's private living and sleeping quarters. In such houses, the main ground-floor room was known as the Great Hall, in which all members of the household including tenants employees and servants would eat, with those of highest status being at the end, often on a raised dais, and those of lesser status further down the hall. But a need was felt for more privacy to be enjoyed by the head of the household, and, especially, by the senior women of the household. The solar was a room for their particular benefit, in which they could be alone (or sole) and away from the hustle, bustle, noise and smells (including cooking smells) of the Great Hall.
The solar was generally smaller than the Great Hall, because it was not expected to accommodate so many people, but it was a room of comfort and status, and usually included a fireplace and often decorative woodwork or tapestries/wall hangings.
In manor houses of western France, the solar was sometimes a separate tower or pavilion, away from the ground-floor hall (great hall) to provide more privacy to the lord and his family.
The etymology of solar is often mistaken as derived from the sun but this is not so. This misconstrual may result from the common usage of the solar; embroidery, reading, writing, and other generally solitary activities. These activities would need good sunlight, and it is true that most solars were built facing south to take maximum advantage of daylight hours, but that characteristic was neither required nor the source of the name. The source of the word may be related to the French word for 'alone': seul(e), pronounced 'seul','sœl'. The name fell out of use after the sixteenth century and its later equivalent was the drawing room.
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In the 13th century Beverston Castle in England there is a surviving but ruined solar in the south tower of the west range, with a vaulted undercroft below.
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Podcasts:
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by Velcra
Solar Red
by: VelcraTime sewed us together with stiches through our scars
Depending on one another
Siamese twins with a single heart, we are
Little waves softly
Keep melting under my feet
Little waves softly
Replace the air that I breathe
Take a look at my heart
It's so empty and dark
Have a listen to my soul
It's so quiet and cold
Your embraces were not enough to change me
Your touch didn't bring me back to life
I never seem to lack inspiration
When I need another explanation
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Don't wait for too long
Don't leave the light on
Cause I won't return back home
And each day we'll learn to forget
Bit by bit with every breath
Where do I end and the world starts?
It's all in our hands
All I'm looking for
I gotta find it on my own
Cause I've been building my plan b all these years
I don't remember anymore where the lead is
Important to ensure there is no room for mistakes
In the process I lost all substance
Didn't wanna live for regret
Be happy to settle with anything that's left
Bit by bit I begin to realise that all I need is to believe in what I feel
Alone I stand alone I fall from this day on