Архитектурные шедевры Великобритании. Рябцева Е.В. - 53 стр.

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The first apartment you enter is the Guard Chamber. In this room is a small magazine of arms, curiously
disposed, as matchlocks, the first ever made, whole, half, and quarter pikes, with bandoliers of various figures.
Round the cornice are a number of breastplates, with helmets over them, and several drums, in proper order.
Over the chimney is carved in lime-wood, the star and garter, in the form of an oval, crowned and encompassed
with daggers and pistols. The pillars of the door leading to the dining-room are composed of pikes, on the tops
of which are two coats of mail, said to be those of John, King of France, and David, King of Scotland, who
were prisoners here; they are both inlaid with gold, the former with fleur-de-lices, and the latter with thistles.
On the staircase leading to the dining-room, stands the figure of a yeoman of the guard, painted in his
proper dress, as if in waiting. Here are four pillars of pikes, ornamented with bandoleers, carbines, and match-
locks. In the centre is a beautiful engraved horse-shield, encompassed with daggers and pistols; as also several
of King James's and King William's pieces, ranged by the late Mr. Harris.
In the Bed Chamber there are six ebony chairs, of a particular make, curiously studded with ivory. The tap-
estry is wrought with gold and silver, representing the story of Autoclotus, King of Phrygia, and his three
daughters, weeping to death by the side of the Helicon. In another part is the story of Pandora's Box; the other
parts of the tapestry are likewise representations of Heathen Mythology.
The other apartments having nothing in them worthy the attention of a traveller, we shall proceed to the top
of the tower, on the leads of which is placed the royal standard, which is fourteen yards long and eight broad,
and is hoisted when the Governor is present, provided the King be not here.
This tower commands a most delightful and extensive prospect, as the reader will readily conceive from the
following inscription, written on a board placed against the wall.
A list of the counties to be seen from the top of this Round Tower: Middlesex, Wiltshire, Essex, Hamp-
shire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Berkshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire.
THE LOWER WARD OR COURT
Words and Expressions
– a clerk – церковнослужитель
– a verger – церковный служитель (жезлоносец)
– a deanery – дом декана или настоятеля
– a gaoler – тюремщик, тюремный надзиратель
– misdemeanour – мисдиминор (категория наименее опасных преступлений, граничащих с админи-
стративными правонарушениями)
– to consign – передавать, поручать
– in contemplation – в ожидании
– to blazon – выставлять напоказ
– hence – отсюда
– ecclesiastical – духовный, церковный
– an earl – граф
– to bequeath – завещать
The Lower Ward is far more spacious than the Upper, and is divided into two parts, by the Collegiate
Church, or Chapel of St George. On the north, or inner side, are the houses and apartments of the Dean and
canons, minor canons, clerks, vergers, and other officers of the foundation; and on the south and west sides of
the outer part of this court, are the houses of the alms, or poor knights of Windsor.
In this ward are also several towers belonging to the officers of the crown, and the order of the garter,
namely, to the Bishop of Winchester, prelate; the Bishop of Salisbury, chancellor; and formerly there was a
tower belonging to Garter, king at arms, but very little is now remaining, except the ruins. Here is also the
store-tower, guard chamber and court of record.
The room occupied as a Guard Chamber, as also the apartments for the Commanding Officer, and the offi-
cer on guard, were on the east side of the deanery; but apartments for the first and last mentioned purposes,
have lately been fitted up in a most commodious manner, out of several rooms belonging to the tower at the en-
trance into the lower ward, formerly the residence of the gaoler belonging to the Court of Record, and those
parts heretofore used as places of confinement for debtors and persons charged with misdemeanours. The
Court-room is now converted into a magazine or store room. It is probable, that the house opposite the present
guard-room, which has usually been held by the Steward of the Court, will be consigned to the use of the Colo-
nel of the Garrison. These removals were in consequence of an intention to erect barracks on the sites of the old

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