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Mediæval military architecture in England (1884)

Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 308

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e outer end of the bridge, and wasoriginally enveloped by a special ditch of its own, a loop from themain ditch of the place, filled up in the eighteenth century. Indesign and execution it resembles closely Byward Tower, thoughrather smaller, its breadth being 40 feet, and its height 30 feet… … MIDDLE TOWER. FIRST FLOOR. lodges, and its central part is ceiled with timber. In neither toweris there now any trace of a drawbridge. The lodges are tolerablyperfect; the stair in the north-east angle is in use, and correspondsto the Byward oratory; and in the south-east turret is a lobby anda…

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