The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 84
... erected in 1291. Several of our castles possess the outer walls of their halls where the strong curtain has proved too much of a task for the stone - robbers . Such is the case at Manorbier in Pembroke , and the very fine hall at Newark ...
... erected in 1291. Several of our castles possess the outer walls of their halls where the strong curtain has proved too much of a task for the stone - robbers . Such is the case at Manorbier in Pembroke , and the very fine hall at Newark ...
Page 86
... erected on the summit of the motte at York consisting of a quatrefoil - shaped keep with rather thin walls . This keep appears to have been shortly after copied by Thomas of Lancaster at his motte - less castle of Pontefract , where a ...
... erected on the summit of the motte at York consisting of a quatrefoil - shaped keep with rather thin walls . This keep appears to have been shortly after copied by Thomas of Lancaster at his motte - less castle of Pontefract , where a ...
Page 111
... erected in 1386 . This is one of the very few new fourteenth - century castles to be erected on an old site . The oval Norman mound conse- quently distorts the normal plan somewhat , making the castle an oval version of the ordinary ...
... erected in 1386 . This is one of the very few new fourteenth - century castles to be erected on an old site . The oval Norman mound conse- quently distorts the normal plan somewhat , making the castle an oval version of the ordinary ...
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