The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 86
... four - square four- towered inner ward was built in the middle of the old Norman cliff - castle about 1244. The aerial view of Goodrich ( 120 ) gives some idea of the type of plan . It is very noticeable that there is a considerable ...
... four - square four- towered inner ward was built in the middle of the old Norman cliff - castle about 1244. The aerial view of Goodrich ( 120 ) gives some idea of the type of plan . It is very noticeable that there is a considerable ...
Page 99
... four Salopian castles of Ludlow , Bridgenorth , Redcastle and Hodnet , the first to - day totally eclipses in magnificence its three neighbours . Three Midland castles follow : Tutbury , of which a good deal remains , Donington ...
... four Salopian castles of Ludlow , Bridgenorth , Redcastle and Hodnet , the first to - day totally eclipses in magnificence its three neighbours . Three Midland castles follow : Tutbury , of which a good deal remains , Donington ...
Page 111
... four sturdy square angle - towers instead of the array of seven or eight so beloved of the southern castle ... Four years earlier the great stronghold of the Bastille had been built in Paris , and from the pictures remaining of this ...
... four sturdy square angle - towers instead of the array of seven or eight so beloved of the southern castle ... Four years earlier the great stronghold of the Bastille had been built in Paris , and from the pictures remaining of this ...
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