. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. *< Fig. 153.—Chateau de Coucy. KEEPS, SECRET PASSAGES, ETC. 365 In England the donjon was usually square, andcalled a keep, good examples of which may still beseen in Rochester Castle and the White Tower ofthe Tower of London ; but later the square shapewas generally abandoned. Much ingenuity was expended on secret passagesand closets in the thickness of the walls, concealed. Fig. 154.—The barbican. doorways, dungeons, and subterranean exits, theknowledge of which was more than jealously guard-ed. Indeed, on one occasio
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. *< Fig. 153.—Chateau de Coucy. KEEPS, SECRET PASSAGES, ETC. 365 In England the donjon was usually square, andcalled a keep, good examples of which may still beseen in Rochester Castle and the White Tower ofthe Tower of London ; but later the square shapewas generally abandoned. Much ingenuity was expended on secret passagesand closets in the thickness of the walls, concealed. Fig. 154.—The barbican. doorways, dungeons, and subterranean exits, theknowledge of which was more than jealously guard-ed. Indeed, on one occasion, Alberade, Countess ofBayeux, ordered the architect Lanfroi to be put todeath lest he might divulge the constructive secretscreated by him in her chateau at Ivry. Beneath the tower often stretched dungeon afterdungeon, into the very bowels of the earth. Somewere square and set side by side, others beehiveshaped and placed one below the other, and thesesoon acquired the appropriate name of these a prisoner was lowered through a hole 366 THE GOTHIC STYLE. at the top ; and through the same orifice his jailerdropped his food, when such a thing was deemednecessary. The oubliettes of Pierrefonds still stand to illus-trate the pressing hospitality of mediaeval barons ;and those of Losches, where Sforzas sable locksturned white in a night, still continue to delight thehearts of morbid tourists in Touraine. Castles erected at the
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