The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... consider the house which such defences were designed to protect . For in its origin the castle was essentially a protected residence , with the garrison castle as a later development . The first castle halls were , of course , no ...
... consider the house which such defences were designed to protect . For in its origin the castle was essentially a protected residence , with the garrison castle as a later development . The first castle halls were , of course , no ...
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... consider its growth from first principles . Throughout the mediaeval period we find two essential parts of a dwelling - house - the Hall and the Chamber . In a democratic organisation the segregation of the sexes was probably the only ...
... consider its growth from first principles . Throughout the mediaeval period we find two essential parts of a dwelling - house - the Hall and the Chamber . In a democratic organisation the segregation of the sexes was probably the only ...
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... consider what form such new castles as were built at this period appeared to take . Firstly , the necessity for considering the sweep of timber palisades having passed away , we find the circular plan being abandoned with it . One ...
... consider what form such new castles as were built at this period appeared to take . Firstly , the necessity for considering the sweep of timber palisades having passed away , we find the circular plan being abandoned with it . One ...
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