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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 349

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r, and asthere is a large and a small archway, it is less symme-trical than Malvern. Both archways appear on the innerside, the smaller one having a distinct passage, insteadof being, as usual, thrown into one inside. The gatewaycalled the Newark, at Leicester, is a large quadrangularbuilding, with… … MEDIEVAL GATEHOUSES. 197 ing is of the same oblong form, with small windowsover the arches. These arches are of the same heightbnt different widths, being very obtuse. They reappear,as at Castle Acre, though there is no separate passage.They are clearly late Perpendicular, but from the…

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