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There is nmcli of the work of this son of Earl Thomas 

 at the Castle, There are signs of his work at the Water 

 Gate and on the mound, but the latter works were evi- 

 dently not completed. In the old views and plans of 

 the Castle, the mound appears to have been defended by 

 a curtain wall on the west, which it probably adjoined, 

 if it did not form part, of the south-western defences of the 

 town. It is near this postern and tower that the never 

 failing well of the Castle is situate, near to the river 

 brink. There have been so many changes in the Castle 

 grounds, that it is impossible to speak with accuracy as 

 to its original plan, but we do know that the inner 

 bailey contained a church or handsome chapel, and the 

 elegantly posed statuette of Guy the Pilgrim, and hero 

 of romance, preserved in the present chapel evidently 

 belonged to that building. The recently discovered 

 remains of the chapel of the same date at Kenilworth 

 will give us some idea of the style and detail of this 

 edifice. Fulke Greville is stated to have made the park 

 here, but it must have been a very limited affair to the 

 west of the Castle, but the changes he made entirely 

 obliterated the remains of the old fortifications on that 

 side shown by Speed in his plan dated 1610. We can 

 trace by means of the views of Buck, Fish and Stukely, 

 the growth of those domestic offices and stables which 

 occupy the outer bailey on the East, and to this Greville 

 we must attribute the fireplace discovered on the west 

 side of the great hall during the recent renovations. 

 The great changes in the Castle were made by Francis, 

 the second Earl of Warwick, grandfather to the present 

 Earl, and his improvements have left us without any 

 reliable guide as to the extent of the Castle grounds and 



