The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 69
... curtains " defied the trebuchets of Louis against which the old walls of Berkhamsted and Hertford had proved ... curtain walls were much more easily assaulted by this method than the old low ring - walls . If you should be living in a ...
... curtains " defied the trebuchets of Louis against which the old walls of Berkhamsted and Hertford had proved ... curtain walls were much more easily assaulted by this method than the old low ring - walls . If you should be living in a ...
Page 70
... curtain " walls at the end of the twelfth century . The first of these were the fine walls built surrounding the keep ... curtains with square angle - towers may also be seen at Portchester and Carisbrooke . An exceptionally interesting ...
... curtain " walls at the end of the twelfth century . The first of these were the fine walls built surrounding the keep ... curtains with square angle - towers may also be seen at Portchester and Carisbrooke . An exceptionally interesting ...
Page 86
... curtains and with a circular tower at each angle . Such castles were built at Barnwell in Northamptonshire in 1264 ( 65 ) and at Somerton in Lincolnshire in 1281. The first is almost perfect , but only one tower and the basement of a ...
... curtains and with a circular tower at each angle . Such castles were built at Barnwell in Northamptonshire in 1264 ( 65 ) and at Somerton in Lincolnshire in 1281. The first is almost perfect , but only one tower and the basement of a ...
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