A tiltyard (or tilt yard or tilt-yard) was an enclosed courtyard for jousting. Tiltyards were a common feature of Tudor era castles and palaces. The Horse...
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Blanke. Jousting at Westminster took place on a tournament ground, or tiltyard, located just beyond the north door of Westminster Abbey. The 1511 event...
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cock fighting (on the site of the Cabinet Office, 70 Whitehall) and a tiltyard for jousting (now the site of Horse Guards Parade). It is estimated that...
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castle. This causeway was called the Tiltyard, as it was used for tilting, or jousting, in medieval times. The Tiltyard causeway acted both as a dam and as...
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Royal Armouries Museum (section Tiltyard)
The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a national museum that holds the National Collection of Arms and Armour. It is part of...
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a five-story viewing tower, and two octagonal towers overlooking the tiltyard. The chapel, which was redone by Henry VIII, featured stained glass windows...
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Tiltyard Gallery". Survey of London: Volume 14, St Margaret, Westminster, Part III: Whitehall II. 1931. p. 10–22. 'The Holbein Gate and the Tiltyard Gallery'...
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Henry's entertainment, including a real tennis court, a bowling alley, and a tiltyard, and was used as an actual cockpit; that is, an area for staging cockfighting...
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in 1663, on the site of a cavalry stables which had been built on the tiltyard of the Palace of Whitehall during the Commonwealth. Built of red brick...
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was in his forties and had been badly injured earlier in the year in a tiltyard accident. He was also already suffering from the health problems that would...
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