The Tower

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Williams, G. ORCID: 0000-0003-3212-8167, 2005. The Tower. sense of place : place of sense, Beacon Arts Project, South Kyme, 1-30 September 2005.

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Item Type:

Exhibition

Creators:

Williams, G.

Contributors:

Name	Role	NTU ID	ORCID
Plowman, J.	Curator of an exhibition	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED

Date:

2005

Description:

The tower is a four storeyed battlemented keep, approximately 77 ft in height and built in ashlar dressed oolitic Ancaster limestone. It is the remains of a moated fortified manor house or ‘castle’, built by Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus in the 1350s as a flamboyant status symbol. It probably had two towers and another two storey building adjoining the present tower. The only invasion the ‘castle’ experienced was by an inquisitive bullock in 1946 which climbed the 108 steps of the narrow spiral staircase to the top. Villagers struggled to get the bullock down, eventually frightening him down backwards. Williams’ intervention at South Kyme Tower contradicted visitors’ expectations of place and architectural space at this medieval building.

Official URL:

http://beaconartproject.org/projects/sense-place-p...

Event Title:

sense of place : place of sense

Event Location:

Beacon Arts Project, South Kyme

Event Dates:

1-30 September 2005

Divisions:

Schools > School of Art and Design

Record created by:

Jill Tomkinson