An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, Guy's Cliff, Stoneleigh Abbey, the Beauchamp Chapel, and Other Places of Interest in the Neighborhood - Softcover

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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.1849 Excerpt: ... ENTRANCE AND INTERIOR. The present approach to the castle was formed at a considerable expense, with great taste, by the late earl. It commences with a recently-erected embattled gateway, called the Porter's Lodge, on the eastern side of the town of Warwick, and fronting the road leading to Leamington. Passing through the Porter's Lodge the visitor enters a fine broad winding road, deeply cut through the solid rock; the ample b ranches of the variegated and thickly planted coppices forming a canopy above, with the moss and ivy creeping in fertile wildness beneath, form a picture romantic and pleasing. Proceeding about 100 yards, a sudden turn in the road brings you to the outer court (formerly a vineyard, and where, it is said, so far back as the time of Henry IV., the rich clusters of grapes came to considerable perfection), where the stupendous line of fortifications, with the "cloud capt towers" breaks suddenly upon the sight in all its bold magnificence, seeming (firmly joined as it is to its rocky foundation) to bid defiance to the all-subduing power of time. On a nearer approach the whole front of the outer works becomes clearly defined; on the right appears the fine polygon tower dedicated to Earl Guy, having twelve sides, walls ten feet in thickness, a base of thirty feet in diameter, and rising to the height of 128 feet. It is machicolated, and, from its exactness of design and beauty of execution, is considered a remarkably fine specimen of the architectural remains of the 14th century. On the left the venerable Caesar's Tower--said to be coeval with the Norman conquest--arrests the attention; it is of irregular construction, and, although it has braved the ravages of time and the depredations of man for nearly 800 years, still continues firm as t...

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