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Palace of Westminster

The Houses of Parliament occupy the site of a royal palace which flourished from the time of Edward the Confessor until Henry VIII moved to Whitehall and St. James's.  Although the Tower of London could accommodate the royal entourage, most kings found Westminster more congenial than the volatile city of London.  There was convenient transport between the two by barge along the Thames.

Parliament's relationship with the palace is an old one, since the House of Lords regularly met in the private royal apartments from the fourteenth century and the House of Commons used the collegiate chapel.

Several royal palaces were unfortified even in Norman times and Westminster was one of them.  The precinct wall that surrounded the palace never quite developed into a defensive curtain, though Edward III commissioned a youthful Henry Yevele to build two towers along its line in 1365.  One of them, the original Clock Tower, has disappeared beneath its famous successor.  The Jewel Tower survives owing to later use as a repository for Parliamentary records. Now an isolated structure facing, and overawed by, the Victoria Tower, it occupied the southwest corner of the medieval palace precinct.  

The present windows, enlargements in 1718, do not conceal the defensive character of the tower, and the ground floor is covered by a vault with beautifully carved bosses.  As a matter of fact, the Jewel Tower, as its name suggests, was built as a secure place for the extensive treasures of the King's privy wardrobe.

The tower is a rectangular structure with a smaller wing at right angles, carefully contrived to stand completely outside the angle of the precinct and thus not encroach upon the King's private garden, which lay behind.  The moat, reinstated at this point, had to be pushed out onto a piece of land appropriated from Westminster Abbey, much to the annoyance of the abbot and monks.
 

Canterbury Castle
 
Considering the level of bombing sustained by the city in 1942, it is a miracle that so much of medieval Canterbury survives.  Among the many attractions are the ruined castle keep and a large part of the city wall.  Indeed, though incomplete, the wall of Canterbury ranks among the foremost in England.  

The shape of the defenses was determined in the third century AD.  The Roman wall enclosed an oval area nearly two miles in circumference, and the medieval wall follows exactly the same line.  However, very little Roman masonry survives because the wall was rebuilt from the 1370s, when a French invasion seemed imminent.

More than half the circuit is preserved, extending from the site of the North Gate at the southwest end of the old city.  The only gaps in this sector are those left by the demolition of the gatehouses.  Eleven bastions survive, notable for their early "keyhole" gun ports.  The four northernmost are square and date from about 1400, but the others are the traditional U-shaped type with open backs.

Canterbury Castle was probably founded soon after the Norman Conquest and certainly before the Domesday Book..  All that remains is the lower half of a large, oblong keep. The stepped splays behind the narrow window openings suggest an early date. The plinth and pilaster buttresses are typical Norman features.   The entrance was at first-floor level in the northwest wall and excavations have uncovered a fore building.

The West gate is the only survivor of seven gatehouses in the wall.  The fortress-like outer façade of the gatehouse, with machicolations overhanging the entrance and sturdy drum towers pierced by gun ports, contrasts with a more domestic townward front. Note the porticullis groove in the vaulted gate passage. The West Gate has survived because it housed the county gaol after the castle keep had become too derelict.