San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 49
which is called the White Tower, in1079 and his successors continued to im-prove the defenses tillit took its presentform. The Tower, oldas it is, is not a ruinand is still in use, al-though only as a mu-seum, arsenal andtreasure house. Hereare kept the crownjewels and regalia ofEngland which canb… … Within the walls of the White Toweris the chapel of St. John with its massivepillars and cubical capitals, its wide tri-forium, its apse borne by stilted roundarches and its barrel vaulted ceiling. Thischapel is one of the finest and best preserv-ed specimens of Norman architecture inEngland. The…
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