A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 495
detected,as by sea or through a mountain pass. The841 TOWER OP SILENCE term is often applied loosely to any high build-ing whose use is not known. (See Bell House;Echauguette ; Noraghe; Talayot.) Water Tower. A tower constructed to holda column of water at a level high enough tosupply fountains or… … Water Tower; see the Flan. White Tower. The keep or donjon of thefortress called the Tower of London. (See thatterm.) TOW^ER OF LONDON. In England, com-monly called The Tower, as a building muchidentified with English history and romantictrachtion. A very ancient castle on the northside of the…
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