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Mediæval military architecture in England (1884)

Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 479

An illustration from Mediæval military architecture in England, 1884, leaf 479
ed from 3 to 4 inches,according to the span of the arch, and the appearance is clumsy.This is not so where the opening is square-headed, there the lintel iscut to a suitable curve. It is remarkable that there is no rebate orprovision for a door where the entrance passages open into the firstfloor,… … floor above, as in the dome below. There is no drain or fireplace.This, therefore, also was a store. In the right wall of the entrance passage, on entering the tower, is aside doorway w^hence a staircase ascends, winding with the walls to thesecond floor. The doorway of 4 feet i inch opening, has a…

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