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Title: Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Warwick, Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville, Countess of, 1861-1938
Subjects: Warwick castle
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton London, Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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inch by which the portcullis is raised andlowered, and pierced with loops for defence. Thesecond chamber has small lights, and it is studded onthe exterior with heavy iron hooks, on which wool-sacks were suspended for defence during the Royalistsiege. Two short newel stairs reach the interior roomsfrom the leads, but not through the drum towers, andthe whole is crenelated and flanked by the archersgalleries of the gatehouse above and from the merlonsof the curtain wall. The gatehouse proper is joined to the barbicanby curtain walls on north and south, both with allures.In the south wall is a second shallow recess, defendedby a second portcullis and an arch with broad soffitcontaining a double row of metirtrieres. Behind these was a lighter gate, supported on doublehinges and with the usual double leaves ; and behindthis a vaulted roof of two bays, the ribs rising fromelegant corbels. The porters or warders room is on the north, andis of two and a half bays, with simple vaulting rising
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Warwick Castle (*- from corbels carved with either foliage or masks. Thewindow is formed by the angle of the interior turrets,and is also vaulted, On the opposite side is an open archway intothe court, with a small chamber in the tower base onthe right and a stair on the left, which winds rounda newel to the leads. This has blocked loops on thesouth, which show it to be of earlier date than thebuilding (the dairy) now erected against it. Therealso a door leads to the barbican leads, and ismatched by another on the north, while another givesaccess to the alhi.re on the south curtain. The stair,meanwhile, ascends through several small chambers tothe gatehouse leads, There is a second stair on the north side, risingfrom the allure of the north curtain. The leads here have corner square towers, thoseon the outside altered in shape by a broad chamfer atthe north-east and south-east angles. These towersare connected by stone bridges supported on segmentalarches, and have gargoyles with spou

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