. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Fig. 174.—Decorative Aucade from Cantebbuky Catueural. to its width, built very strongly, and with every pro-vision for sustaining an attack or even a siege. Such atower is called a keep; and in many famous castles, asfor example the Tower of London, tlxe keep forms thenucleus round which buildings and courtyards of laterdate have clustered. In some few instances, however, asfor example at Colchester, the keep is the only part now 238 CIIRISTIAX ARCHITECTURE. standing, and it is probable that when originally builtthese Norman castles were not much
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Fig. 174.—Decorative Aucade from Cantebbuky Catueural. to its width, built very strongly, and with every pro-vision for sustaining an attack or even a siege. Such atower is called a keep; and in many famous castles, asfor example the Tower of London, tlxe keep forms thenucleus round which buildings and courtyards of laterdate have clustered. In some few instances, however, asfor example at Colchester, the keep is the only part now 238 CIIRISTIAX ARCHITECTURE. standing, and it is probable that when originally builtthese Norman castles were not much encumbered with out-buildings. Rochester Castle is a line example of a Xormankeep, though it has sutfered much from decay and Fig. 175.—llEDiKcnAJi Castle. The very large I^orman keep of the ToAver of London,known as the White Tower, and containing the chapelalready described, has been much modernised and altered,but retains the fine mass of its original construction. ROMANESQUE. 239 Perhaps the best (and best-preserve J) example is II ed-inghiim Castle in Essex, which ve illustrate (Figs. 175aud 17G). yruiu the reiiiuius of this building suiiie idea
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