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Mediæval military architecture in England (1884)

Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 318

An illustration from Mediæval military architecture in England, 1884, leaf 318
h both. The exterior portal is in the east wall. Ithas no flanking towers, being protected by the curtain. The north-east angle is capped by a square buttress, placed diagonally. Thegateway has a plain, flat segmental arch over it. Upon a stone arethe words, This made Roger, and above are two… … 298 MedicBval Military Architecture. machicolation resembling those on each face of the keep. It is saidthat formerly the arms of Vaux, checquy/ were carved over theentrance ; but it seems probable that they were the arms of Clifford,chequy, a fess, or it may have been a bendlet. The passagewithin,…

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