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 INTRODUCTION 30 13TH CENT. ROUND TOWERS first floor have any loopholes for light ; these must therefore have both been used as stores. The hall is on the second floor,, and the private room on the third floor. Above this there was also a room entering from the parapet walk for the garrison. FIG. 24. Conisborough Castle. Chapel. The hall and private room have both fine chimneys, and the former has a window with full-centred recess and stone seats, such as are usual in Norman keeps, and which we shall find common in Scotch keeps to a very late period. Off the private room there is a beautiful little oratory built in the thickness of one of the buttresses. The style of ornamenta- tion fixes distinctly the date of the building towards the end of the twelfth century. The buttresses are carried up as turrets above the parapet, and one of them is fitted up with an oven, so that the baking may have been