Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . uilt by Robert DOyly 1)0 Aldens Oxford Guide. in the time of the Conqueror,* was probably a prison tower in thewall of the outer bailey, and not the keep, as was formerlysupposed. A mount is a common appendage to a Normancastle, formed of the earth dug out in making the ditch, and the summit served as a look-out place,commonly pro-tected by a wooden pali-sade, and sometimes hada building on the topof it. In the centre ofthe Oxford mount awell was sunk and awell room made in thetime of Henry II., whenthe sum of ^19 i
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . uilt by Robert DOyly 1)0 Aldens Oxford Guide. in the time of the Conqueror,* was probably a prison tower in thewall of the outer bailey, and not the keep, as was formerlysupposed. A mount is a common appendage to a Normancastle, formed of the earth dug out in making the ditch, and the summit served as a look-out place,commonly pro-tected by a wooden pali-sade, and sometimes hada building on the topof it. In the centre ofthe Oxford mount awell was sunk and awell room made in thetime of Henry II., whenthe sum of ^19 igs. wasexpended on it, equi-valent to nearly ^400of our money. Therewas a small churchand college of priests,called St. Georges Col-lege, within the stately towers ofthe Castle, which werea great ornament to that part of the city, were standing until thetime of Colonel Ingoldsby, the governor, when, in 1649, theParliament had them pulled down. They were four in number,besides the one on the gate. * See illustration, also description (No. 69) in the Guide.—[Ed.]. OXFORD CASTLE. The City Walls. Ill The City Walls were built in the reign of Henry III., andabout a century after their erection, in the reign of Edward III.,1370, we find mention of a grant from the Abbot of Osney towardstheir repair. The plan is the usual one of that period,—a curtainwall, with an alure or walk on the top, protected by a parapet andround towers—or bastions, as they are conveniently called—atregular and short intervals. The staircases were probably in thesebastion towers, and the last of them may be seen in the part ofthe wall surrounding New College Gardens (12), where the straightstaircases from the alure to the towers remain. It is here thatthe walls may be best seen, as William of Wykeham obtained per-mission to include the lane within the wall in the ground of hisNew College, on condition that he repaired the wall, and that hiscollege should keep it in perpetual repair. Starting
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