The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 39
... Orford in Suffolk ( 40 ) with a twelve - sided tower , and five years later at Chilham in Kent with an octagon . The designer of the former keep was his own royal architect , Alnoth , who had a permanent salary of sevenpence a day and ...
... Orford in Suffolk ( 40 ) with a twelve - sided tower , and five years later at Chilham in Kent with an octagon . The designer of the former keep was his own royal architect , Alnoth , who had a permanent salary of sevenpence a day and ...
Page 40
... Orford and Chilham are the only polygonal keeps in this country , as persons who continued to build these almost obsolete structures seem to have decided that they might just as well make them round and be done with it . Before passing ...
... Orford and Chilham are the only polygonal keeps in this country , as persons who continued to build these almost obsolete structures seem to have decided that they might just as well make them round and be done with it . Before passing ...
Page 60
... Orford in Suffolk , he only placed in it a garrison of twenty men , although the whole country surrounding it was in ... Orford lived on bread , pork , beans ( sic ) , cheese and eels . In the Pipe Rolls of the time you can still see ...
... Orford in Suffolk , he only placed in it a garrison of twenty men , although the whole country surrounding it was in ... Orford lived on bread , pork , beans ( sic ) , cheese and eels . In the Pipe Rolls of the time you can still see ...
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