Is another in the fortress, built during the reign of Edward I, and consecrated to St. The rooms below theīuilding were so many prisons, the walls of which still bear inscriptions which the victims who were imprisoned there wrote. Another room in the White Tower served as a Council Chamber. John, in which the ancient kings devoted their devotions. On the second floor there is a beautiful remains of the Norman architecture, The buildingĬonsists of three high stories, under which there are rooms, which served as prisons. It is crenellated, with a turret at each corner. Quadrangular building, the largest and oldest part of this fortress. Since then, we have been talking about theĬover of the Guide to the Tower of London, by Hewitt (1868)Įntering the inner enclosure by the door of the Bloody Tower, one is at the foot of the White Tower. Of York, were said to have been smothered by order of their uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. The Bloody Tower, where Edward V and his brother, the Duke Was there that the prisoners of state were brought in before. At a short distance from it, one sees the Traitor's Gate, so named because it It is said that Queen Elizabeth was confined in this tower, which now depends on theĪpartments of the governor of the fortress. The right of the west gate was the Lion Tower, built by Edward IV, formerly occupied by the royal menagerie. It has two doors on the other side of the ditch, which a small stone bridge crosses, and a third door beyond the ditch. One is to the south-west of the buildings. The Tower is separated from the Thames by a part of the ditch and a platform from which one has a beautiful view of the river. The interior of the fortress contains several private houses, a church, shops,Įtc. The great wall carries, from distance to distance,Īlong the entrenchments, the cannon-guns which command all the avenues of the Tower. The fortress covers 12 acres (4.9 hectares) of land and is surrounded by a ditch. Today, it was still in the nineteenth century at the end of the city, and the western This fortress is located on the north bank of the Thames, west of London. We also note the presence of the "very recent" Waterloo barracks, since it was built in 1840. We can still detect some differences between the situation of the time and theĬurrent state of the Tower of London, especially on the presence of the "guns that command all the avenues of the tower". If writing is a little obsolete most of the texts are still current. He describes this monument with the eyes of a visitor This text is that of a certain Hewitt, it was written in 1868 in a book, the "Guide to the Tower of London". With a link for each of them to their description.ĭescription of the Guide to the Tower of London, by I. Here is the list of the main places to know, the protection zone beyond the moat, still a military zone prohibited to the publicĪs it is a fortress, there are a large number of buildings to the Tower of London, the main being probably the keep.the drawbridges, between the middle towers and the tower of the berroi,.Otherwise the Tower of London has other protections: That can be taken today to visit all the fortifications. On the other hand, if the outer wall has only a few towers, the inner ramparts have much more, especially on the north side. Finally on the west side the only protection tower is to the south, it is the Thomas Tower and two smaller ones, the Cradle Tower and the The south side faces the Thames, protected by the Middle towers which are in front of the entrance. Towers except the Byward tower which controls the entrance, and of course the Legge Mounts (in the West) and Brass (in the East). On the north side the outer rampart has only two massive towers (20m in diameter, about), one at each angle. It has moats, two concentric walls and numerous protection towers. The Tower of London is a fortress hard to take. Quarter general of the fusilliers which houses a museum, the royal chapelĪnd other lesser-known buildings: the hospital, the workshops, the Inside this double enclosure is the main building, the dungeon (here called the white towerīecause of the color of the decorations), the Waterloo barracks containing the crown jewelry room, the The whole citadel is surrounded by a large ditch which has been drained, with a thick first rampart (except the south side, where it is finer) and a The whole of the Tower of London is 4.9 hectares, it forms an irregular hexagon included in a rectangle of 240m by 210, plus an advanced double-turn that controls The Tower of London, seen from the South, by the Thames.
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