Almost certainly true in medieval times, although not so much for horseback
as to restrict the mobility of attackers on foot with swords, which is why
doorways seem so low and narrow to us. For a similar reason spiral
staircases in castles were always built with a right-hand twist as you go up
to restrict how well an attacker could wield his sword, but not a defender,
right-handedness being the norm. Abingdon Museum is actually a town hall and
market hall built long after that, where the design was more a factor of
aesthetics than practicalities, and first-floor windows are way above
horse-mounted attackers :o)
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> I seem to re-call from either my late High School or early collage
> either READING or HEARING [at lecture]
> SOMEPLACE that doors/entrance ways were actually designed and/or just
> built in that NARROW width space
> to prevent mounted armoured soldiers from being able to enter a
> "building" ?!?!?
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