. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . uildings adjoining the eastern wall of the White Tower. Whether they had been previously removed from the building now known as C Store to the ground floor of the eastern annexe to the White Tower, the upper floors of which were used for drawing-rooms of the Ordnance, or whether Hewitt refers to the C Store, it is impossible to say. Certainly one plan in the possession of the Office of Works shows Armouries in the eastern annexe to the White Tower, but as it is undated it is of no great use for reference, and may have only been a
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . uildings adjoining the eastern wall of the White Tower. Whether they had been previously removed from the building now known as C Store to the ground floor of the eastern annexe to the White Tower, the upper floors of which were used for drawing-rooms of the Ordnance, or whether Hewitt refers to the C Store, it is impossible to say. Certainly one plan in the possession of the Office of Works shows Armouries in the eastern annexe to the White Tower, but as it is undated it is of no great use for reference, and may have only been a suggested site. The annexe was demolished in 1885. As none of the early guide books gives the exact position of the Horse Armouries it is impossible to tell whether such a removal took place, but it is probable that nothing was done between the years 1726 and 1825. That armour was stored in several other buildings of the Tower we learn from Bayley, who states that in 1826 armour, some of which had come from Malta, was kept in the basement of the Bowyer NEW HORSE ARMOURY. (From Britton & Brayleys Memoirs of the Tower. ISSO.) The New Horse Armoury. In 1825 the New Horse Armoury was built against the south wall ofthe White Tower from plans by Mr. Wright, Clerk of the Works. Therehad been a building on this site as early as 1726, at which date Lemprieremarked it on his plan as a carriage shed. The exterior was of the quasi-mediaeval type, similar to that of the present Waterloo Barracks, withbattlements and turrets at the corners, evidently intended to be in keepingwith the architecture of the White Tower. Thomas Allen, in his Historyand Antiquities of London, published in 1827, writes : It cannot beregretted too much that Government should have allowed a paltry buildinglike that containing the New Horse Armoury to have been erected againstthe venerable and noble White Tower . . surely there were otherplaces to have been built upon without defacing the most perfect specime
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