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A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)

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commonly used during thointerval between the fall of the Bom an s and the eleventhcentury. The earliest Norman keep known is the towercalled St. Leonards tower, at Mailing, in Kent, built byBishop Gundulph about 1080. No traces of Early Nor-man masonry can be found 011 the sites of the castles… … 99 Boor, In the times of the Romans the doors were ofwood or metal, and occasionally of marble, panelled, andturning on pivots working in sockets, and this customcontinued in some countries to a late period, as in Ire-land. In this country a few original Norman doors existthey are devoid of…

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