The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... gallery , with the result that the proportions of the hall and chamber are spoiled . The forebuilding has now dis- appeared , but its position is shown by the larger windows , which it once protected , at the southern end of the gallery ...
... gallery , with the result that the proportions of the hall and chamber are spoiled . The forebuilding has now dis- appeared , but its position is shown by the larger windows , which it once protected , at the southern end of the gallery ...
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... gallery . The arcaded glories of Norwich remind one of another keep which resembles it to a lesser degree , the rather smaller keep of Corfe in Dorset ( 23 ) . The shattered ruins of this once beautiful tower - vindictively destroyed by ...
... gallery . The arcaded glories of Norwich remind one of another keep which resembles it to a lesser degree , the rather smaller keep of Corfe in Dorset ( 23 ) . The shattered ruins of this once beautiful tower - vindictively destroyed by ...
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... gallery . The galleries at Newcastle are not for lighting the room below . The windows in them are very tiny . Moreover the whole arrangement is above the roof - which seems to settle the matter . The galleries are thus provided ...
... gallery . The galleries at Newcastle are not for lighting the room below . The windows in them are very tiny . Moreover the whole arrangement is above the roof - which seems to settle the matter . The galleries are thus provided ...
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