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Title: Vanishing England
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: England -- Description and travel England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ill atthe back of what is now Dogpole, and passing the Water-gate, again joined the fortifications of the castle.1 Thecastle itself was reconstructed by Prince Edward, the sonof Henry III, at the end of the thirteenth century, and isof the Edwardian type of concentric castle. The Normankeep was incorporated within a larger circle of tower andwall, forming an inner bailey ; besides this there wasformerly an outer bailey, in which were various buildings,including the chapel of St. Nicholas. Only part ofthe buildings on one side of the inner bailey remainsin its original form, but the massive character ofthe whole may be judged from the fragments nowvisible. These walls guarded a noble town full of churches andmonasteries, merchants houses, guild halls, and muchelse. We will glance at the beauties that remain : St.Marys, containing specimens of every style of archi-tecture from Norman downward, with its curious foreignglass; St. Julians, mainly rebuilt in 174S, though the 1 Ibid,, p. 48.
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■■■ S^nSg .A T\««- ■.-■•■; Tower on the Town Wall, Shrewsbury OLD WALLED TOWNS 57 old tower remains ; St. Alkmunds ; the Church of St.Chad ; St. Giless Church ; and the nave and refectorypulpit of the monastery of SS. Peter and Paul. It is dis-tressing to see this interesting gem of fourteenth-centuryarchitecture amid the incongruous surroundings of acoalyard. You can find considerable remains of thedomestic buildings of the Grey Friars Monastery nearthe footbridge across the Severn, and also of the home ofthe Austin Friars in a builders yard at the end of BakerStreet. In many towns we find here and there an old half-timbered dwelling, but in Shrewsbury there is a sur-prising wealth of them—streets full of them, bearingsuch strange medieval names as Mardel or Wyle Cop.Shrewsbury is second to no other town in England inthe interest of its ancient domestic buildings. There isthe gatehouse of the old Council House, bearing the date1620, with its high gable and carved ba

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