The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... Henry I. ARIAN Look- The great tower - keeps of Rochester and Hedingham stand alone in this country , although the converted hall - keep of Portchester , like them over a hundred feet high , bids fair to match them for loftiness . The ...
... Henry I. ARIAN Look- The great tower - keeps of Rochester and Hedingham stand alone in this country , although the converted hall - keep of Portchester , like them over a hundred feet high , bids fair to match them for loftiness . The ...
Page 38
... Henry II in 1175- It has only two floors , the basement and a combined entrance storey and chamber complete with latrine but lacking a fire- place . We are glad to say , however , that this appears to have been the only case where the ...
... Henry II in 1175- It has only two floors , the basement and a combined entrance storey and chamber complete with latrine but lacking a fire- place . We are glad to say , however , that this appears to have been the only case where the ...
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... Henry II seems to have been the first to realise the danger of having angles to tall towers . He therefore made two experi- ments with keeps , first in 1165 at Orford in Suffolk ( 40 ) with a twelve - sided tower , and five years later ...
... Henry II seems to have been the first to realise the danger of having angles to tall towers . He therefore made two experi- ments with keeps , first in 1165 at Orford in Suffolk ( 40 ) with a twelve - sided tower , and five years later ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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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