The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 37
... interesting early hall - keep is that at Portchester in Hampshire ( 16 ) . As will be explained later , this keep was afterwards raised to turn it into the loftier " tower " type which eventually supplanted the early “ hall " -keeps ...
... interesting early hall - keep is that at Portchester in Hampshire ( 16 ) . As will be explained later , this keep was afterwards raised to turn it into the loftier " tower " type which eventually supplanted the early “ hall " -keeps ...
Page 47
... interesting as they are of the depressed segmental type instead of the usual Norman semicircular shape . The Dover arches may be met with again at Maurice's other keep of Newcastle and in the doorway to the great hall at Farnham . We ...
... interesting as they are of the depressed segmental type instead of the usual Norman semicircular shape . The Dover arches may be met with again at Maurice's other keep of Newcastle and in the doorway to the great hall at Farnham . We ...
Page 52
... interesting character Maurice the Engineer , designer of the great towers of Newcastle and Dover . With the inevitable one or two exceptions , there are no square keeps built on the summit of Norman mottes , for the reason that their ...
... interesting character Maurice the Engineer , designer of the great towers of Newcastle and Dover . With the inevitable one or two exceptions , there are no square keeps built on the summit of Norman mottes , for the reason that their ...
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