The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... elaborate examples , for such exist in the stave - churches and are hinted at in some of the descriptions of timber castle halls which have come down to us . The walling would appear as vertical boarding and the well - pitched roofs ...
... elaborate examples , for such exist in the stave - churches and are hinted at in some of the descriptions of timber castle halls which have come down to us . The walling would appear as vertical boarding and the well - pitched roofs ...
Page 111
... elaborately arranged drawbridges , very often with walls on either side of the bridge - pit , as at Donnington , or at ... elaborate advance - guard or barbican . Throughout the centuries it will be noticed that the ten- TWILIGHT 105 O F ...
... elaborately arranged drawbridges , very often with walls on either side of the bridge - pit , as at Donnington , or at ... elaborate advance - guard or barbican . Throughout the centuries it will be noticed that the ten- TWILIGHT 105 O F ...
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... elaborately engineered artificial lake and sturdily built with walls and towers , looking much more like a castle of a ... elaborate . Beyond the bridge - pit is a stone causeway leading to an outer gatehouse or large barbican having in ...
... elaborately engineered artificial lake and sturdily built with walls and towers , looking much more like a castle of a ... elaborate . Beyond the bridge - pit is a stone causeway leading to an outer gatehouse or large barbican having in ...
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