Book of the Tower of LondonB.T. Batsford, 1993 - 128 pages This history of the buildings of the Tower of London - one of England's most famous and popular tourist sites - shows how the monument has changed over the centuries. The author, who has himself undertaken detailed excavations in the Tower, traces the development of the fortifications and the evolution of the palatial complex. He looks at the numerous functions the buildings of the Tower have been put to fortress, armoury, palace, prison, mint and even zoo - and the adaptations made to house them all. |
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List of illustrations 6 8 | 6 |
Before the Normans | 12 |
The Tower enlarged | 24 |
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adjoining Armouries Building Artist's impression Barracks bastions Beauchamp Tower Bell Tower Bloody Tower brick Byward Tower castle Chapel of St colour plate construction Cradle Tower Cut-away illustration defences demolished demolition Develin Tower ditch early Edward Edward III eighteenth century English Heritage erected evidence excavations fortress garrison Grand Storehouse ground floor guns Henry III's Historic Royal Palaces Inmost Ward Jeremy Hall Jewel House John king king's Lanthorn Tower late Legge's Mount Main Guard Martin Tower masonry medieval Middle Tower moat mural Ordnance Office outer curtain wall Outer Ward Peter ad Vincula postern Queen's House reign repair replaced restorations river Roman roof Royal Armouries royal lodgings Royal Palaces Agency Salt Tower Salvin south side south-east corner south-west St Peter St Thomas's Tower stone structure Terry Ball thirteenth-century timber tion Tower of London Tudor turret vault Wakefield Tower western entrance Wharf White Tower фффф