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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 332

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bly at the top of the tower, as the most secure place, with thekitchen, and offices, and bed-rooms in the lower part: the bed-rooms increase in number, generally according to the date; in thelater towers a third part is commonly walled off for that purpose.There are water-drains and other… … 398 EXISTING REMAINS. Of the twelfth century—besides the Norman keeps of thelarger castles, several of the smaller towers are believed to be-long to this period, as two small ones at Dalkey, and BullockCastle, near Dublin, but this is rather doubtful; they are ofrough stone, and so plain that they…

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