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LINCOLN CASTLE central tower as well. The church of St. Mary Magdalene was swept away to clear the site, and a chapel at the north west end of the new building allotted to the parishioners in compensation. Like the Taj at Agra it was seventeen years in building, and its great founder died, May 4, 1092, a few months before its completion. This was in the reign of Rufus, a reign notable for the building of the great Westminster Hall.
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Gateway of Lincoln Castle.
The wide joints of the masonry, and the square shape of the stones, and the rude capitals of the pilasters are distinctive of
