An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 406
days.^ Fromthese circular turrets it was but a short step to circular towers. Of these atthe beginning of the nineteenth century there were 118 in Ireland, where thefact that almost invariably they are only some 20 ft. distant from a churchand that their doorway always faces the entrance to the… … G. w. s. New Romney, Kent 882 ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE 1 *•**. ^^JT, y ^^ way is not on the i^round, but high up, only to be reached by a ladder, proves thatthey are towers of refuge ; and they were built very tall partly to serve as watch-towers, but mainly to provide numerous chambers where a…
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