Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII (1859)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford London, J. H. and J. Parker · leaf 264
throw downmissiles on the heads of the assailants, or to pour wateron the faggots if they attempted to apply fire, and forthis purpose the shaft from the well is often continuedthrough the thickness of the wall up to the battlement.Sometimes, instead of a continuous gallery, small stoneclosets,… … THE CHAMBERS AND OFFICES. 147 to protect the foot of the walls wherever they were liableto be attacked, and not the doorways only. At Conwaythere is a remarkable row of twelve of these closets, pro-jecting from the parapet at the top of the wall, in onebay only, between two towers, of the town…
Architecture, Domestic
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