The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each (1807)
Britton, John, 1771-1857 · London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, J. Taylor, Architectural Library, and the author · leaf 234
mmonbeauty. The plan is an irregular polygon, which, by its many breaksand receding angles, produces a romantic and pleasing effect. Thistower is about 39 feet in diameter, lofty and well proportioned, dividedinto three stories, and crowned with an embattled parapet pierced with loops.At the… … STOKE-SAY CASTLE. 143 ture, which is probable, is a remarkable instance of the durability of that an-cient kind of covering. The ground-floor of the tower consists of one roomonly, of most irregular and whimsical shape, occasioned by tbe many juttingangles of the building. It is large, low, and…
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