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The Horseshoe Cloister and the Curfew Tower

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Date

18th century

Artist

Paul Sandby (1725-1809)

Collection

Royal Collection Trust

Image Link

https://www.rct.uk/collection/914555

Description

A watercolour drawing of the Horseshoe Cloister Curfew Tower and the Horseshoe Cloister. In the background at the centre is the Curfew Tower. In the foreground, in a courtyard bordered by a low brick wall and a wooden portico, several stonemasons are at work. Mounted on a yellow, green, black and grey wash line bordered mount of a type associated with drawings from the collection of Sir Joseph Banks. Inscribed on the verso in pencil, possibly in the artist's hand, 'Windsor. View of Julius Caesar's Tower from the West end of St. George's Chappel'.
The houses in the Horseshoe Cloister, as today, provided accommodation for the choristers and layclerks of St. George's Chapel. In the eighteenth century it was known as the Singing Men's Cloister. The walls of the buildings, built around 1480 were very varied in structure and composition. The pitched roofed house in this drawing covers the Chapter Library and was originally built as the Vicars' Hall. The Curfew Tower, originally known as the Clewer Tower, has been the belfry of St. George's Chapel since about 1475. It was known as the Julius Caesar Tower at this date. From 1870 the Cloister was substantially rebuilt to the designs of George Gilbert Scott.

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017

Location

Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England

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Buildings
People
Trade
Towers

Category

Buildings & Architecture

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