| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Warwickshire (England) - 1884 - 366 pages
...adorned and defended by a lake, partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a...chief. Beyond the lake lay an extensive chase, full of red-deer, fallow-deer, roes, and every species of game, and abounding with lofty trees, from amongst... | |
| Lafayette Charles Loomis - Europe - 1889 - 652 pages
...adorned and defended by a lake, partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a...superior in architecture to the baronial castle of raaay a Northern chief." After the death of Leicester, Kenilworth was seized by the crown, and, at... | |
| Lafayette Charles Loomis - Europe - 1890 - 656 pages
...Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a path hithei to untrodden, instead of the usual entrance to the northward, over which he had erectedfc gatehouse, or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent and superior in architecture... | |
| Lafayette Charles Loomis - Europe - 1892 - 736 pages
...adorned and defended by a lake, pnrtiy artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a...the usual entrance to the northward, over which he luul erected a gatehouse, or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent anil BUparior in... | |
| G. Phillips Bevan - Warwickshire (England) - 1894 - 170 pages
...cincture, which admits into the base court by the side of Leicester's great gate-tower or barbican, ' equal in extent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief,' and now used as a modern residence. The salient point of the buildings within the inner court is Cceiar's... | |
| William James Rolfe - Authors - 1896 - 304 pages
...hardly be possible — as it was then. Its very gate-house, still standing complete, was, as Scott says, "equal in extent and superior in architecture to the baronial castle of many a northern chief"; but this was the mere portal of the majestic structure, enclosing seven acres with its walls, equally... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1849 - 344 pages
...adorned and defended by a lake partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a...extent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial jastle of many a northern chief. Beyond the lake lay an extensive chase, full of red deer, fallow deer,... | |
| Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - Dramatists, English - 1899 - 270 pages
...short distance beyond the fine gatehouse which was erected by Leicester, and which, as Scott says, " is equal in extent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle, of many a northern chief." It is the only part of the Castle which is now occupied as a dwelling-place, the entrance passage having... | |
| Lafayette Charles Loomis - Europe - 1901 - 654 pages
...adorned and defended by a lake, partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a...to the baronial castle of many a Northern chief." After the death of Leicester, Kenilworth was seized by the crown, and, at a later period, conferred... | |
| J. Ivo Ball - Castles - 1906 - 128 pages
...sides was adorned and defended by a lake, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, over which he had erected a gate-house or barbican, which still exists." The Great Hall measured 90 feet by 45 feet, and its height was equal to its width ; the beautiful tracery... | |
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