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Inside Castle Rising Castle |
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Inside the forebuilding, we find the Great Staircase, one of the few surviving examples of this form of entrance in England. |
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"Phew! That was some climb." Beany Z rests on some Romanesque column capitals halfway up the stairs. |
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At the top of the staircase, through the main doorway in Norman times, we arrive in a small room. To our left, is the original doorway into the great hall, blocked by the insertion of a tiled fireplace in the 16th century. The fireplace is decorated with Bawsey-type relief floor tiles of 13th century date. These are slightly worn and must have been recovered from elsewhere in the castle or from a nearby church. |
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The great hall is now roofless and floorless. There was a large basement below it, today accessed through a Tudor doorway at the bottom of the great staircase, and a great chamber above. The roof trusses rested on decorated corbels in the shape of heads and grotesque masks. |
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