The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 86
... gatehouse ( 86 ) , placed close to the angle , has absorbed the angle tower , which appears as a bulge on its external flank . The very fine gatehouse of the little castle of Leybourne in Kent also shows a bulge of this description , in ...
... gatehouse ( 86 ) , placed close to the angle , has absorbed the angle tower , which appears as a bulge on its external flank . The very fine gatehouse of the little castle of Leybourne in Kent also shows a bulge of this description , in ...
Page 111
... gatehouse . With the development of the courtyard plan , however , these rooms became absorbed in the rest of the range of buildings , and only the entrance passage itself remains to be raised into lofty block in proper gatehouse ...
... gatehouse . With the development of the courtyard plan , however , these rooms became absorbed in the rest of the range of buildings , and only the entrance passage itself remains to be raised into lofty block in proper gatehouse ...
Page 111
... gatehouse with its twin stair- turrets , was added in advance of the gate , as at Carisbrooke ( 103 ) or Lewes ( 102 ) . These barbicans usually date from the middle of the fourteenth century . The turreted gatehouse was the last ...
... gatehouse with its twin stair- turrets , was added in advance of the gate , as at Carisbrooke ( 103 ) or Lewes ( 102 ) . These barbicans usually date from the middle of the fourteenth century . The turreted gatehouse was the last ...
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