Vista in formato quadrato di pezzi di artiglieria su carrozze con armi da fuoco disposte con pile di palle di cannone sulla terrazza dietro la Ypres Tower o il castello di Rye, costruito per difendere il cinque Porto di Rye nel Sussex orientale, Inghilterra, Regno Unito, dagli attacchi francesi. La torre serviva anche come prigione, tribunale e mortuario prima di diventare casa del Museo del Castello di Rye.
2812 x 2811 px | 23,8 x 23,8 cm | 9,4 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
21 maggio 2011
Ubicazione:
Rye, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
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Rye, East Sussex, England, UK: square format view of artillery pieces on wheeled gun carriages, interspersed by stacks of cannon balls, on the terrace behind the Ypres Tower or Rye Castle, built in the 1300s to ward off French attacks, later used as a prison and now hosting the Rye Castle Museum. The sturdy square structure, built of coursed sandstone rubble with four projecting three-quarter round corner towers, was originally known as Baddings Tower. Its present title recalls Jean de Ypres, who bought it from the town in 1430 as his home. According to expert opinion, the tower, now protected as a Grade I Listed building, was probably built between 1329 and 1400, perhaps as an extension to earlier fortifications. It was a vital component in Rye’s defences, which included four gates and a town wall. Most of the wall has now vanished, but stubs of its masonry still project from the west wall of the north-west turret and a more substantial section stands to the east of the tower. During the Hundred Years’ War, Rye continued to be attacked by the French and after they sacked the town in 1377, the tower seems to have been used temporarily as a prison. It regained this role, and that of a courthouse, in the 1500s. A full-time gaoler was appointed in 1796 and in the early 1800s, an exercise yard was added to the north-west. In 1837, a Women’s Tower was built to house female inmates, together with a set of two-storey cells. Ypres Tower ceased to be a prison in 1891, but the basement floor was used as a mortuary until 1959. The tower lost its pyramidal roof in a 1942 air raid, but this was replaced with a flat roof in the 1950s and Rye Museum began to take the building over in 1954. D1354.B8051
