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Vault: Underground chamber of interment

Vaulting: Roofing over a space consisting of ribbed arches radiating from a point

Vesica: Shape produced when a the centre of a circle is placed on the diameter of another circle of equal radius

Vice: A spiral staircase normally found in a tower or keep.

Voussoir: One of the wedge shaped stones used to form an arch

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Wall plate: The horizontal piece of wood at the top of a wall immediately under the roof

Wall-walk: The passage along the top of a wall

Ward: An enclosure surrounded by walls. Another name for the bailey or courtyard

Warming Room: The one room in an abbey apart from kitchens where a fire was allowed

Waterleaf: Leaf shaped ornamental motif at top of columns. Introduced by the Cistercians

Wattle and Daub: Filling between the timber frame of a building

Wheel-window: See rose-window

Wicket: A small door in a larger Cathedral door that allows access without opening the main door

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Virtual Buildings

Transport yourself back up to a thousand years and explore historical buildings as they may have appeared in the past.

Explore the bailey and wooden tower keep of a Norman motte and bailey castle

Explore all four floors of a Norman square keep similar to Dover Castle that was built in the twelfth century.

Explore a siege landscape and learn about the siege engines used to destroy a castle.

Explore a reconstruction of Stokesay Castle, a fortified manor house from the fifteenth century.

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