I read somewhere if you go there a French knight will yell slurs against your family from the ramparts and command you to mind your own business, if you ask what a French knight is doing in England
Jarapa4 on
The first and true phallic representation before the great skyscrapers.
JohanTravel on
Shouldn’t the windows face the other towers to make it more defendable? Once the invaders reach the walls they would be impossible to hit from the lower floors. That leaves only the roof. And hitting them from the top with arrows would be difficult. All they can do at that point is drop stones.
VirginiaLuthier on
Imagine the stones being hauled up there, one by one, and having to fit EXACTLY. ……imagine
BenjaminHarrison88 on
Alfred really was a great king. Shame his descendants lost to those Frenchified Norsemen
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Built in 1772, it commemorates Alfred the Great and reaches over 49 meters high with a narrow footprint that adds to its illusion of impossibility. [Source](https://streetartutopia.com/2025/10/24/buildings-that-look-like-theyre-from-a-dream/)
Awesome pic. Thanks for sharing
I read somewhere if you go there a French knight will yell slurs against your family from the ramparts and command you to mind your own business, if you ask what a French knight is doing in England
The first and true phallic representation before the great skyscrapers.
Shouldn’t the windows face the other towers to make it more defendable? Once the invaders reach the walls they would be impossible to hit from the lower floors. That leaves only the roof. And hitting them from the top with arrows would be difficult. All they can do at that point is drop stones.
Imagine the stones being hauled up there, one by one, and having to fit EXACTLY. ……imagine
Alfred really was a great king. Shame his descendants lost to those Frenchified Norsemen