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than of Bisliop Hörne, in the sixteenth. Whether 

 the bnilcllng composlng the western slde of the inner bailey 

 of the Edwardian Castle be orlginally Norman, or no, 

 (whlch from the immense thlckness of the walls, as well as 

 from a letter of Sir Benjamin Hammet, in which he says 

 he has converted a Saxon arch into an apartment, I am 

 inclined to belleve it was) the ashler work of lancet windows 

 still apparent in both external and Internal walls, which can 

 hardly be later than the end of the thirteenth or the begin- 

 ing of the fourteenth centuries, as well as the circular 

 towers at the angle, leave no doubt that if not built from 

 the ground they were modernized and adapted to the 

 System of fortification in iise during that period. The 

 entrance into this inner bailey was through an embattled 

 gate-tower, which, from the inscription and arms upon two 

 stones in its south front, has been ascribed to Bishop 

 Langton, But this stone is clearly not in situ, and though 

 the mouldings of the internal arch of the gateway are 

 such as were commonly used in the fifteenth centiury, those 

 of the outer arch are piain bokl chamfers. This, as well as 

 the shape of the arch itself, which may well be as early as the 

 thirteenth Century, leads me to believe that the gate-tower 

 is an Edwardian addltion to the base court of the Norman 

 edifice, which Langton probably repaired and faced on the 

 inside with ashler work, moulded according to the taste 

 prevalent during the period in which he lived. 



If I be riglit in supposing this gate-house to be of early 

 English or early decorated date, there is at its western 

 junction with the other bulldings of the south front, a piece 

 of construction which strongly corroborates my idea that 

 the walls of, at least, part of the inner bailey, are Norman. 

 I find that the buttress of the lower buildlng, which is 

 flat and of very Norman-like construction is carried up 



