The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 56
... lord and his wife and family and a few servants of both sexes . The lord's horses were a very valuable item of his belongings and were always housed within the enclosure of the castle , where there would probably also be enough space to ...
... lord and his wife and family and a few servants of both sexes . The lord's horses were a very valuable item of his belongings and were always housed within the enclosure of the castle , where there would probably also be enough space to ...
Page 61
... lord . It will be appreciated that such castles might have had no permanently residential castellan . Their government was therefore entrusted to an officer called a " constable " who lived in the castle and , although not its owner ...
... lord . It will be appreciated that such castles might have had no permanently residential castellan . Their government was therefore entrusted to an officer called a " constable " who lived in the castle and , although not its owner ...
Page 78
... lord of the house used to sleep . In this storey also the watchmen and the servants appointed to keep the house took ... lord of the castle . The lord's private suite being thus separated from the great hall , this fell back into the ...
... lord of the house used to sleep . In this storey also the watchmen and the servants appointed to keep the house took ... lord of the castle . The lord's private suite being thus separated from the great hall , this fell back into the ...
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