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130 ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
story over the former. The measurements are marked on the plans; and the letters
refer to the following places and divisions of the tower.
No. 2, detached part: A. a vault or cell, beneath two other floors, projecting
from the north side of the Castle. This was entered by a descending flight of stairs,
b, from the room B. The opening in the wall of this dungeon, opposite the stairs,
is evidently modern. A. an apartment over the dungeon, with a window at e. and
an arched opening at d. &c.—B. a vaulted room, with two small loop-hole windows,
g. g. a recess, h. another recess, or room in the wall, i. an opening and circular
tunnel in the wall, o. for the well; an arched passage through the wall, a. This,
according to Mr. King, was a sally-port from the lower floor, and opened beneath
the draw-bridge of the exterior flight of steps. The sill of the door was about seven
or eight feet from the ground. Two door-ways, n. n. communicate to another cor-
responding apartment, C. This room was provided with four loop-hole windows,
g.g.g.g. two square recesses or closets in the wall, k. k. another at L and a fourth at m.
No. 1 is a plan of the second story, which, by its arrangement of windows, fire-
places, closets, stairs, &c. was more particularly adapted to habitation. It was
approached by stone steps on the outside of the building, commencing on the west
side, and turning round the angle of the tower to the north. At the top was the
grand portal or door-way, the arch mouldings of which are ornamented with zigzag.
It had also a portcullis. Within it was the vestibule, or hall, 26 by 13 feet, which
was lighted by four windows : three of these have central mullions. A large
door-way, with a portcullis, opened from the vestibule to a large apartment, A.
Immediately within the door are two niches or stone seats, e. e. in the wall, which
Mr. King conjectures were occupied by two warders, or persons appointed to keep
castle-guard.* At m. m. h. on this floor are fire-places, with flues or chimneys,
r. running through the walls : k. k. arched passages in the walls to loop-holes :
n. the shaft to the well, which continued through this centre wall from the upper to
the lower part of the keep : 1. 1. small loop holes in the semi-circular tower at the
south-east angle of the keep : q. stair-case to this tower, and also to the top : another
stair-case at E. also led to the summit: whilst that at D. communicated between the
ground floor and first story. There appears to have been two more floors in the
* Lord Coke says, that the military tenure of castle-guard required the person on duty not only to defend the
castle, but to take charge of a tower, a door, a bridge, a sconce, or some other certain part.—See Coke on
Littleton, 83.
story over the former. The measurements are marked on the plans; and the letters
refer to the following places and divisions of the tower.
No. 2, detached part: A. a vault or cell, beneath two other floors, projecting
from the north side of the Castle. This was entered by a descending flight of stairs,
b, from the room B. The opening in the wall of this dungeon, opposite the stairs,
is evidently modern. A. an apartment over the dungeon, with a window at e. and
an arched opening at d. &c.—B. a vaulted room, with two small loop-hole windows,
g. g. a recess, h. another recess, or room in the wall, i. an opening and circular
tunnel in the wall, o. for the well; an arched passage through the wall, a. This,
according to Mr. King, was a sally-port from the lower floor, and opened beneath
the draw-bridge of the exterior flight of steps. The sill of the door was about seven
or eight feet from the ground. Two door-ways, n. n. communicate to another cor-
responding apartment, C. This room was provided with four loop-hole windows,
g.g.g.g. two square recesses or closets in the wall, k. k. another at L and a fourth at m.
No. 1 is a plan of the second story, which, by its arrangement of windows, fire-
places, closets, stairs, &c. was more particularly adapted to habitation. It was
approached by stone steps on the outside of the building, commencing on the west
side, and turning round the angle of the tower to the north. At the top was the
grand portal or door-way, the arch mouldings of which are ornamented with zigzag.
It had also a portcullis. Within it was the vestibule, or hall, 26 by 13 feet, which
was lighted by four windows : three of these have central mullions. A large
door-way, with a portcullis, opened from the vestibule to a large apartment, A.
Immediately within the door are two niches or stone seats, e. e. in the wall, which
Mr. King conjectures were occupied by two warders, or persons appointed to keep
castle-guard.* At m. m. h. on this floor are fire-places, with flues or chimneys,
r. running through the walls : k. k. arched passages in the walls to loop-holes :
n. the shaft to the well, which continued through this centre wall from the upper to
the lower part of the keep : 1. 1. small loop holes in the semi-circular tower at the
south-east angle of the keep : q. stair-case to this tower, and also to the top : another
stair-case at E. also led to the summit: whilst that at D. communicated between the
ground floor and first story. There appears to have been two more floors in the
* Lord Coke says, that the military tenure of castle-guard required the person on duty not only to defend the
castle, but to take charge of a tower, a door, a bridge, a sconce, or some other certain part.—See Coke on
Littleton, 83.