The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 38
... Shropshire ( badly wrecked after the Civil War ) and Prudhoe in Northumber- land are examples of such keeps , the first being probably much earlier than the other two . There are smaller examples at Clitheroe in Lancashire , Goodrich in ...
... Shropshire ( badly wrecked after the Civil War ) and Prudhoe in Northumber- land are examples of such keeps , the first being probably much earlier than the other two . There are smaller examples at Clitheroe in Lancashire , Goodrich in ...
Page 54
... Shropshire ( 3 ) a fine gate - tower was also structed , turreted and with an elaborately arcaded entrance passage . This passage was afterwards walled up and the tower turned into a keep , but the cracked masonry where the blocking was ...
... Shropshire ( 3 ) a fine gate - tower was also structed , turreted and with an elaborately arcaded entrance passage . This passage was afterwards walled up and the tower turned into a keep , but the cracked masonry where the blocking was ...
Page 80
... Shropshire has also a solar at the lower end ( 71 ) . In front of the dais would have been the open fire - hearth , the smoke from which would escape somehow through a hole in the roof protected by a little turret . Fireplaces were not ...
... Shropshire has also a solar at the lower end ( 71 ) . In front of the dais would have been the open fire - hearth , the smoke from which would escape somehow through a hole in the roof protected by a little turret . Fireplaces were not ...
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