EXPLANATION
PLATES-,
FRONTISPIECE.
X HIS curious and very elegant example is given as
a specimen of the Saxon or circular style of architec-
ture, and is taken from Mr. Wilkins's accurate print
in the 12th volume of the Archaeologia. The fol-
lowing is Mr. Wilkins's account of it
" On the east, side of Norwich castle is a tower
projecting 14 feet, by 27 in breadth, of a richer style
of architecture, which I have ventured to call Bigod's
tmver; it is decidedly of the taste in general use sub-
sequent to the Conquest, and continued through great
part of king Stephen's reign; and it was most probably
repaired and finished in its present style by Hugh
Bigod, who succeeded his brother William in the con-
stableship of the castle early in the twelfth century."
Archasologia, vol. xii. p. 162.
Mr. King, in a passage which Mr. Wilkins with
great candour has subjoined, considers it as much
older. " There is indeed a trace of its having been
built in its present form by Roger Bigod, about the
time of William Rufus, and of its having been finally
completed by Thomas de Brotherton, even so late as
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PLATES-,
FRONTISPIECE.
X HIS curious and very elegant example is given as
a specimen of the Saxon or circular style of architec-
ture, and is taken from Mr. Wilkins's accurate print
in the 12th volume of the Archaeologia. The fol-
lowing is Mr. Wilkins's account of it
" On the east, side of Norwich castle is a tower
projecting 14 feet, by 27 in breadth, of a richer style
of architecture, which I have ventured to call Bigod's
tmver; it is decidedly of the taste in general use sub-
sequent to the Conquest, and continued through great
part of king Stephen's reign; and it was most probably
repaired and finished in its present style by Hugh
Bigod, who succeeded his brother William in the con-
stableship of the castle early in the twelfth century."
Archasologia, vol. xii. p. 162.
Mr. King, in a passage which Mr. Wilkins with
great candour has subjoined, considers it as much
older. " There is indeed a trace of its having been
built in its present form by Roger Bigod, about the
time of William Rufus, and of its having been finally
completed by Thomas de Brotherton, even so late as
b