The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... ENGLAND By EDMUND VALE THE HEART OF ENGLAND By IVOR BROWN THE COUNTRYMAN'S ENGLAND By DOROTHY HARTLEY THE OLD TOWNS OF ENGLAND By CLIVE ROUSE ENGLISH VILLAGES AND HAMLETS By HUMPHREY PAKINGTON THE OLD INNS OF ENGLAND By A. E. RICHARDSON ...
... ENGLAND By EDMUND VALE THE HEART OF ENGLAND By IVOR BROWN THE COUNTRYMAN'S ENGLAND By DOROTHY HARTLEY THE OLD TOWNS OF ENGLAND By CLIVE ROUSE ENGLISH VILLAGES AND HAMLETS By HUMPHREY PAKINGTON THE OLD INNS OF ENGLAND By A. E. RICHARDSON ...
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... England than on the Continent for over three centuries . The greater feudal lords , whether on their own account or as officers under the King , held the great stone castles which in their new whiteness marked the English landscape from ...
... England than on the Continent for over three centuries . The greater feudal lords , whether on their own account or as officers under the King , held the great stone castles which in their new whiteness marked the English landscape from ...
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... England the sport of archery was being encour- aged and the accuracy of the archers and their formidable weapons was such that none of the garrison of a castle would care to show himself at a crenel unless the besiegers could be kept ...
... England the sport of archery was being encour- aged and the accuracy of the archers and their formidable weapons was such that none of the garrison of a castle would care to show himself at a crenel unless the besiegers could be kept ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chepstow Chilham circular constructed crenellated cross-wall defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortified fortress fourteenth century Framlingham gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly later latrines lord main floor masonry Maxstoke mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins Saxon scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet triforium twelfth century upper usually wall-towers Yorkshire