. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . rble shaftsin the jambs. The Kings Hall at Winchester has been alreadymentioned; it is of about the same period, 1222—1235. Theremains of Somerton Castle, Lincolnshire, belong also to theearlier division of this style: the only parts perfect are theround towers at the corners, in one of which is a vaulted cham-ber with a central pillar, like a small chapter-house. Of WindsorCastle of the time of Henry III. we have part of the curtain- THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE, 15/ wall and two round towers, in one of which is a vaulted cham-ber, probably t
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . rble shaftsin the jambs. The Kings Hall at Winchester has been alreadymentioned; it is of about the same period, 1222—1235. Theremains of Somerton Castle, Lincolnshire, belong also to theearlier division of this style: the only parts perfect are theround towers at the corners, in one of which is a vaulted cham-ber with a central pillar, like a small chapter-house. Of WindsorCastle of the time of Henry III. we have part of the curtain- THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE, 15/ wall and two round towers, in one of which is a vaulted cham-ber, probably the prison. There are similar chambers in someof the round corner towers or bastions in the Tower of London,and a remarkably perfect one, also a prison chamber, in Lin-coln Castle, called Cobbes Hall, also of the time of Henry are some small remains of the manor-house of Cogges,Oxfordshire, including two good windows of about this period,probably built by Walter Grey, Archbishop of York, who gavethe manor to his nephew, Grey of 120. Window at the west end of the Hall of the Kings Palace at Winchester, 1222—1235. The remains of the manor-house at Cottesford, Oxfordshire,and of a small house at Sutton Courtney, Berkshire, are a littleearlier than Cogges. Those of the parsonage-house at WestTarring and the manor-house at Crowhurst, Sussex, and thearchdeacons house at Peterborough, appear to belong also tothe first half of the thirteenth century. Of the later division of 158 THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE, this style, or the latter half of the thirteenth century, hut heforethe Edwardian castles, we have some fine and interesting ex-amples. Ay don Hall or Castle, Northumberland, is rather a for-tified manor-house than a castle. Stoke Say Castle, in Shrop-shire, is another of the same kind, and with the hall Wenham Hall, Suffolk, is another very interesting andperfect example, and the more remarkable as being of brick,and the bricks of the form
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