Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 2 (of 2)Clark, George Thomas
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Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 2 (of 2)
Clark, George Thomas
Architecture -- England; Architecture, Medieval; Military architecture
The west chamber, 55 feet by 21 feet, has in its south end a window
recess 7 feet broad, in the east wall of which a door opens into
a mural chamber 14 feet by 9 feet, with a loop to the south and a
fireplace in the east wall. In the west wall of the great chamber is a
window recess 5 feet wide, commencing at the floor level, and there are
three doors. That at the north end opens into a chamber, 22 feet by 9
feet, in the west angle, with loops to the west and north. From this
opens a passage in the north wall 17 feet long, which ends in a chamber
11 feet by 5 feet; chambers and passage have loops to the north. Near
the centre of the west wall of the great chamber a door opens into
another mural chamber, 22 feet by 14 feet, with two loops to the west
and a fireplace in the east wall. Another door leads, by a curved
passage with a loop to the west, into the south-west staircase. In the
great cross-wall is a door near its north end, and in each of its faces
two large fireplaces, now walled up. In the north wall is a high window
or recess of 8 feet opening.
The main gallery, though it threads the wall nearly all round, lies
at different levels, and at one point is stopped. It is entered from
the two staircases. That at the north-east gives off two branches, of
which one rises by fourteen steps, with a loop to the north, and enters
a passage in the north wall 16 feet long, having a loop to the north,
and to the south an opening, now blocked up, into the great chamber.
The passage ends in a chamber 18 feet by 8 feet, in the north wall of
which is a loop, and near it a deep recess for a garderobe; and in the
south wall is what seems to be the mouth of a gallery threading the
cross-wall, where, however, it would be stopped, or very much reduced,
by the shafts of the fireplaces. The other branch from the north-east
staircase rises by six steps, when it gives off a branch to the east
of nine steps, which lead to the roof of the upper tower of the
forebuilding. The main passage then curves and rises ten steps more,
in all sixteen steps, when it enters the substance of the east wall,
where it is 60 feet long and 4 feet 7 inches broad, and has a door to
the east, opening on the middle tower of the forebuilding, and a loop,
and opposite to these are two openings in the west wall, which formerly
opened into the great chamber, and now are blocked by the brick vault.
The passage then turns and lies for 67 feet in the south wall. In its
east end is a loop; in its south wall, there 10 feet thick, a door
opening upon the roof of the lower tower of the forebuilding. In the
same wall are two, and probably three loops, opposite to two of which
seem to have been openings into the great chamber. The third is much
broken. In the inner wall is a recess, probably the mouth of the
cross-wall gallery. At its west end the main gallery descends twenty
steps to reach the south-east staircase. From this staircase, at twenty
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