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 35
ite of a domestic character, yet on the exterior and inthe gatehouse the embrasures for cannon, as well as theloopholes and machecoulis, shew that it was well calcu-lated to resist a siege for a considerable time. And itis according to the same principle that we find, especiallyin the north, the… … North. TOWER KIRK ANDREWS ON ESKE CUMBERLAND GENERAL REMARKS. 9 These peles, or tower-built houses fortified, may stillbe found in great numbers in Scotland and the bordercounties, and in Ireland. In Scotland they are frequentlyas late as the sixteenth century, built in close imitationof a Norman…
Architecture, Domestic
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