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Mediæval military architecture in England (1884)

Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 487

An illustration from Mediæval military architecture in England, 1884, leaf 487
height tothe crown of the vault is about 14 feet, gained by stilting the arch.The altar is gone. On the left, on entering the oratory, a small flat-topped doorwayleads into a mural vestry of irregular form, about 9 feet long by5 feet broad, with a splayed loop, and in the end wall a… … way of 3 feet 4 inches opening enters a lobby 3 feet 10 inches by7 feet, whence a staircase of twenty-four stairs ascends, winding withthe wall, to the battlements and the fourth story. The staircase is4 feet broad, and vaulted with hanging ribs. The two lower stair-cases ascend from east to west…

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