The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 27
... arrangement gave no room for storage of any description , and it was thus usual wherever possible to divide the ... arrangements . In the earliest houses there had apparently been no permanent latrines , but when ideas of comfort had ...
... arrangement gave no room for storage of any description , and it was thus usual wherever possible to divide the ... arrangements . In the earliest houses there had apparently been no permanent latrines , but when ideas of comfort had ...
Page 40
... arrangement of the floors at Newcastle shows a com- plete departure from the usual practice . The keep has three floors , of which the uppermost is the main storey . This is also the entrance storey , incidentally the first time we have ...
... arrangement of the floors at Newcastle shows a com- plete departure from the usual practice . The keep has three floors , of which the uppermost is the main storey . This is also the entrance storey , incidentally the first time we have ...
Page 43
... arrangement , thus keeping the large windows as high up as possible where projectiles were less likely to enter . Early keeps were not really built for active defence . Their main purpose was protection for the occu- pants , and the ...
... arrangement , thus keeping the large windows as high up as possible where projectiles were less likely to enter . Early keeps were not really built for active defence . Their main purpose was protection for the occu- pants , and the ...
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