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- 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...
- **** 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...
- Blanke. Jousting at Westminster took place on a tournament ground, or tiltyard, located just beyond the north door of Westminster Abbey. The 1511 event...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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'...
- a five-storey viewing tower, and two octagonal towers overlooking the tiltyard. The chapel, which was rebuilt by Henry VIII, featured stained-gl**** windows...
- 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...
- building was designed by William Kent, and built during the 1750s on a former tiltyard site, replacing an earlier guard-house erected during the Civil War. The...
- medieval period, castles and palaces were augmented by purpose-built tiltyards as a venue for "jousting tournaments". Training for such activities included...