This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ... building, the character was modified by the spirit of the Perpendicular style. The only remaining portion is the front to the river, which is a beautiful composition, though sadly disfigured and broken down by its employment for some commercial purpose. There is a gateway-tower in the centre, with two large octagonal ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ... building, the character was modified by the spirit of the Perpendicular style. The only remaining portion is the front to the river, which is a beautiful composition, though sadly disfigured and broken down by its employment for some commercial purpose. There is a gateway-tower in the centre, with two large octagonal ones at the corners, connected by curtain walls. The latter are the natural modification of the round towers of the earlier style, as being better adapted to receive the square-headed and pointed windows. It will be observed that they are furnished with a variety, adapted to the shape, of the spur-buttress, so commonly employed in round towers in the South Welsh castles. In this case it becomes actually identical with the squinching in the base of a broach-spire, the fact being that the towers are square at the actual base and become round (or octagonal) above it. In an analogous way the octagonal turrets attached to the gateway-tower are square at the base, but they become octagonal by another process, that, namely, commonly employed in wooden spires. The gateway must have had a segmental arch, with a corbel-table over it, and a large pointed window above, but they are blocked and mutilated. Raglan, or Ragland Castle, is a splendid ruin of the fifteenth century, more of a military than domestic character, but still clearly inhabited as a nobleman's mansion of the period. The keep is, in fact, a separate fortress of hexagonal form, surrounded by a separate moat. The gatehouse is very grand, flanked by two hexagonal turrets, and has the grooves of two portcullises. The walls of the hall remain, with its bay-window; the roof, which is said to have been of Irish oak, is entirely destroyed; one wall is blank, and separates the hall from the chapel...
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Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo,
CARMARTHESHIRE,
UNITED KINGDOM
$141.31
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Reader copy. 2 VOLUME SET part I & II. ex library rebound hardbacks with blue boards, no D/J, usual library stamps/markings. Part I published in 1859 by John Henry Parker with 200pp & 84 illustrations-all intact. Part II published in 1859 by John Henry Parker with 290pp & 74 illustrations-all intact. Rebound/recut by library at some stage with original textblock. Boards are good & page edges are clean, foxing throughout. Heavy set with ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 49A*