The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 28
... building into something resem- bling a tower . The timber building being awkwardly long for this purpose , he conceived the idea of placing the hall and chamber side by side , making them of different widths but of the same length , so ...
... building into something resem- bling a tower . The timber building being awkwardly long for this purpose , he conceived the idea of placing the hall and chamber side by side , making them of different widths but of the same length , so ...
Page 78
... building apparently ] , from room to room , and again from the house into the loggia , where they used to sit in conversation for recreation , and again from the loggia into the oratory . " This description gives some idea of how ...
... building apparently ] , from room to room , and again from the house into the loggia , where they used to sit in conversation for recreation , and again from the loggia into the oratory . " This description gives some idea of how ...
Page 78
... build slender shafts of stone such as grace the interiors of so many buildings of the " Gothic " era . ( Compare the ... building . ) Parts of the timber columns of the halls of Leicester and Farnham still remain . The cubical capital ...
... build slender shafts of stone such as grace the interiors of so many buildings of the " Gothic " era . ( Compare the ... building . ) Parts of the timber columns of the halls of Leicester and Farnham still remain . The cubical capital ...
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