. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. sile weapons and moltenlead might be discharged upon the assailants. In the lower or palatial division of thecastle stand a large polygonal tower of four stories, which was appropriated to QueenEleanor, and in which lier ill-fated son was born, and another which was oecujiied bythe king, of a circular shape externally, but square towards the court. Tlie apartments inthe last mentioned are larger, and lighted by windows M-ith square heads, and inters
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. sile weapons and moltenlead might be discharged upon the assailants. In the lower or palatial division of thecastle stand a large polygonal tower of four stories, which was appropriated to QueenEleanor, and in which lier ill-fated son was born, and another which was oecujiied bythe king, of a circular shape externally, but square towards the court. Tlie apartments inthe last mentioned are larger, and lighted by windows M-ith square heads, and intersectedwith carved mullions. There is a singular contrivance in the battlements, each of whichhad an excavation for the archers to stand in, pointing their arrows through the slits;and, a curious stratagem, the carved figures of soldiers witii helmets, apparently lookingover the parapet. This device is repeated at Chepstow. The ornamental character otthe architecture at (.^ernarvon and Conwav is rather ecclesiastical, or conventual, thouinilitarv. At Conwav, as has been well observed by an anonymous autlior, • what w 111. EARLY ENGLISH. 177.
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