Архитектурные шедевры Великобритании. Рябцева Е.В. - 30 стр.

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These diverse institutions and uses co-existed uneasily until the primacy of the Tower’s military role was
reasserted following the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as Constable in 1826. Wellington, like many
others at the time, believed England to be on the brink of revolution, and he saw the security and strength of the
Tower as his first responsibility. Already the Royal Mint had moved out Wellington had the menagerie closed
and obtained agreement that the public records were to be removed. When the main Ordnance building, the
Grand Storehouse, was destroyed by fire in 1841, it was replaced by a vast new barracks block. The defences
were strengthened, and Wellington even urged, though in vain, that the sightseeing public should be excluded,
as a threat to the Tower’s security.
Tourism and Tradition
By the time of Wellington’s death in 1852, the fear of revolution had passed. For the first time in its history
the Tower was no longer seen as a significant military presence that might help to subdue riot or rebellion in
London. Instead, with the encouragement of Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, the Tower began to take
on the character of a national monument. Ordnance buildings which had replaced or obscured the historic fabric
were gradually demolished, and the medieval walls and towers were restored or even totally re-created. At the
end of Victoria’s reign in 1901, half a million people visited the Tower each year, largely drawn by the
romantic appeal of the darker side of its history as popularised in novels, paintings and engravings of the time.
Nowadays, the number of visitors is about two million annually, three-quarters of them from overseas. The
Tower has become one of the world’s great tourist attractions. Nevertheless, it remains a community, as it has
always been, and it is this continuing village life within the walls which links the present-day Tower to its long
and eventful past, no less than its buildings, ceremonies and traditions.
THE WHITE TOWER
Words and Expressions
– a deputy – заместитель
– a partition – перегородка
– a basement – подвальное помещение
– a refuge – убежище
– a rope – веревка
– to smuggle – принести тайком
– a batch – группа
– to alter – изменить
– rag – крупнозернистый песчаник, крупный кровельный сланец
– limestone – известняк
– ashlar – кладка из тесаного камня
– a turret – башня с бойницами
– rectangular – прямоугольный
– an angle – угол
– a ram – таран, стенобитное орудие
– a crypt – склеп
– holy – святой
– a rood – распятие, крест
– a triforium – трифорий

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