Hedingham Castle
The village of the castle Hedingham is ruled by one of the finest keep. In the face of Ashler Masons who brought all the way from Bernac, it is almost completely devoid of its battlements and preserved. The sloping pedestal and pilaster buttresses are typical Norman motifs, but the turrets rising at the opposite corner are distinctive features. If you look from the outside, you can see that the Tenshu has five stages.
As always with the large Norman keep--the hall is twice the height of the other room, and its top window is at the gallery level, so this translates to the fourth floor in the top floor, or The sun is just below the parapet, so there is no blank space to protect the roof that has been thrown like a lot of Norman. Norman is relatively small, but it is interesting how the window graduates from a narrow slit at ground level to a larger, more elaborate opening above. Note the even rows of the Patrol holes used for construction.
The building in the front, which is preceded by a flight of steps, guarded the way. It is allowed to collapse into a catastrophic stump, but the chevron ornament and portcullis ditch and the first floor entrance are still in use. The inner chamber is bisected by a wide archway that prepares us for the loftier, shaped arch at the hall level. These cross arches are unique features. They have a cross as a symbol to keep the wooden floor that has supported them.
The mural gallery performs all the way around keeping at the level above the hall. Frequent window depressions penetrate the light hole advantage at its two levels. The current floors and roofs are modern and were consumed by fire in 1918. .
Haddon Hall
Haddon Hall stands on a cliff overlooking the Wye River, two miles southeast of Bakewell. The situation and outline of the Four-sided Ecstasy give an impression of strength from a distance, but as a castle Haddon is like a mystery. The history of its complex building suggests that it has developed a defense but has since been a fortified home of a manor.
The story returns to Richard de Vernon, who has obtained a unique license of 1195. It allowed him to surround his house within the wall, but the wall exceeded twelve feet in height and should not have been cnellinated. Some of the walls and some of the chapels have survived since that time.
What today stands is a rectangular enclosure of the fourteenth century with a range of buildings on each side. The outer wall is certainly of sufficient thickness to qualify as a curtain except for the north side, the area of which is the late medieval reconstruction. On the west side, the curtains remain defensive with square ridges protruding from the center. The terrain is the strongest here, but the insertion of the windows of the Elizabethan Bay has changed the appearance of the mansion elsewhere. The only other tower is the high gate tower at each end. Mysterious weakness is the chapel that protrudes from the southwest corner of the enclosure.
The hall is in the middle of the enclosure and is divided into two courtyards. This arrangement is a curtain without getting worse on the side of the larger window that lights up the hall. A fine porch leads from the lower courtyard to the old screen walkway. The roof of the hall is a modern reconstruction, but the original wooden screen still exists. In the north there is a row of kitchens and domestic offices. To the south, save the painted ceiling from about 1500, the first parlor underneath it, the sun is on the ground floor.
The village of the castle Hedingham is ruled by one of the finest keep. In the face of Ashler Masons who brought all the way from Bernac, it is almost completely devoid of its battlements and preserved. The sloping pedestal and pilaster buttresses are typical Norman motifs, but the turrets rising at the opposite corner are distinctive features. If you look from the outside, you can see that the Tenshu has five stages.
As always with the large Norman keep--the hall is twice the height of the other room, and its top window is at the gallery level, so this translates to the fourth floor in the top floor, or The sun is just below the parapet, so there is no blank space to protect the roof that has been thrown like a lot of Norman. Norman is relatively small, but it is interesting how the window graduates from a narrow slit at ground level to a larger, more elaborate opening above. Note the even rows of the Patrol holes used for construction.
The building in the front, which is preceded by a flight of steps, guarded the way. It is allowed to collapse into a catastrophic stump, but the chevron ornament and portcullis ditch and the first floor entrance are still in use. The inner chamber is bisected by a wide archway that prepares us for the loftier, shaped arch at the hall level. These cross arches are unique features. They have a cross as a symbol to keep the wooden floor that has supported them.
The mural gallery performs all the way around keeping at the level above the hall. Frequent window depressions penetrate the light hole advantage at its two levels. The current floors and roofs are modern and were consumed by fire in 1918. .
Haddon Hall
Haddon Hall stands on a cliff overlooking the Wye River, two miles southeast of Bakewell. The situation and outline of the Four-sided Ecstasy give an impression of strength from a distance, but as a castle Haddon is like a mystery. The history of its complex building suggests that it has developed a defense but has since been a fortified home of a manor.
The story returns to Richard de Vernon, who has obtained a unique license of 1195. It allowed him to surround his house within the wall, but the wall exceeded twelve feet in height and should not have been cnellinated. Some of the walls and some of the chapels have survived since that time.
What today stands is a rectangular enclosure of the fourteenth century with a range of buildings on each side. The outer wall is certainly of sufficient thickness to qualify as a curtain except for the north side, the area of which is the late medieval reconstruction. On the west side, the curtains remain defensive with square ridges protruding from the center. The terrain is the strongest here, but the insertion of the windows of the Elizabethan Bay has changed the appearance of the mansion elsewhere. The only other tower is the high gate tower at each end. Mysterious weakness is the chapel that protrudes from the southwest corner of the enclosure.
The hall is in the middle of the enclosure and is divided into two courtyards. This arrangement is a curtain without getting worse on the side of the larger window that lights up the hall. A fine porch leads from the lower courtyard to the old screen walkway. The roof of the hall is a modern reconstruction, but the original wooden screen still exists. In the north there is a row of kitchens and domestic offices. To the south, save the painted ceiling from about 1500, the first parlor underneath it, the sun is on the ground floor.
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