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The White Tower is 90 feet (27 m) high
and the walls vary from 15 feet (4.5 m) thick at the base
to almost 11 feet (3.3 m) in the upper London Studios
parts. Above the battlements rise four turrets; three
of them are square, but the one on the northeast is circular,
in order to accommodate a spiral staircase. This turret was
briefly used as the first royal observatory in the reign of
Charles II London Studios. Completing the
defences to the south of the Tower was the bailey.
In the 1190s, King Richard the Lionheart (reigned 1189-99)
enclosed the White Tower with a curtain wall, and
had a moat dug around it filled with water from the Thames.
Richard utilised the pre-existing Roman city wall, to the
east, as part of the circuit.[4] Part of the wall London Studios he built was incorporated into the later circuit
wall of Henry III and is still extant, running between the
Bloody Tower and the Bell Tower, the latter of which also
dates to his reign.[5] In 1240 Henry III had the exterior
of the building whitewashed, which is how it got its name.
The Inmost Ward
In the early thirteenth century Henry III (reigned 1216-72)
transformed the Tower London Studios into a major
royal residence and had palatial buildings constructed within
the Inner Bailey to the south of the White Tower. This Inmost
Ward was entered by the now ruined Coldharbour Gate to the
NW and bounded by a wall, fortified by the Wakefield Tower
to the SW, the Lanthorn Tower to the SE, and the now ruined
Wardrobe Tower to the NE.[6]
The Inmost Ward
In the early thirteenth century Henry III (reigned 1216-72)
transformed the Tower London Studios into a major
royal residence and had palatial buildings constructed within
the Inner Bailey to the south of the White Tower. This Inmost
Ward was entered by the now ruined Coldharbour Gate to the
NW and bounded by a wall, fortified by the Wakefield Tower
to the SW, the Lanthorn Tower to the SE, and the now ruined
Wardrobe Tower to the NE.[6]
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