The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 38
... garrison , so that the accommodation pro- vided by a hall - keep , unless of the largest size , may have been becoming inadequate . With the rise of the stone walls , therefore , we note the disappearance of the hall - keep . On the ...
... garrison , so that the accommodation pro- vided by a hall - keep , unless of the largest size , may have been becoming inadequate . With the rise of the stone walls , therefore , we note the disappearance of the hall - keep . On the ...
Page 56
... garrisons , although the lord's servants would fight for him when he was involved in trouble , and he could always hire mercenaries to augment their services . A permanent garrison , however , had no place in a community which was ...
... garrisons , although the lord's servants would fight for him when he was involved in trouble , and he could always hire mercenaries to augment their services . A permanent garrison , however , had no place in a community which was ...
Page 60
... garrison fortress ( as opposed to a residential castle ) was that the passive strength of the building would enable a small garrison to take the place of a large army . We therefore need not suppose that the garrisons of twelfth ...
... garrison fortress ( as opposed to a residential castle ) was that the passive strength of the building would enable a small garrison to take the place of a large army . We therefore need not suppose that the garrisons of twelfth ...
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