[375] Other Lincolnshire examples of brick-work are the gatehouse of Thornton abbey (1382), already described, and the early sixteenth-century manor-house on the Trent above Gainsborough, known as Torksey castle.
[376] The ditch at Hurstmonceaux is now dry. That at Compton Wyniates has been partly filled up. The moat of Kentwell, an Elizabethan house, is still perfect.
[377] The upper stories of these towers only are semicircular. The two lower stages are half octagons. The towers have circular upper turrets like those at Warwick.
[378] The castle of Amberley was built about 1379 by Bishop Rede of Chichester, and is therefore nearly contemporary with Bodiam. It is rectangular in shape, with lofty curtains, and has a gatehouse flanked by round towers.
[379] Lett. and Pap. Hen. VIII., vol. IV., nos. 2,655, 2,656.
[380] Lett. and Pap. Hen. VIII., vol. IV., no. 1,089.
[381] Calendared ibid., vol. III., no. 1,186.
[382] Pat. 19 Edw. III., pt. 1, m. 25.