The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... mediaeval period we find two essential parts of a dwelling - house - the Hall and the Chamber . In a democratic organisation the segregation of the sexes was probably the only consideration , and this may have been effected by their ...
... mediaeval period we find two essential parts of a dwelling - house - the Hall and the Chamber . In a democratic organisation the segregation of the sexes was probably the only consideration , and this may have been effected by their ...
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... mediaeval castle hall it was usual to have the kitchen at the lower or entrance end of the hall , but in the keeps it often had to be at the other end . It may be taken as a general rule that in most castles the well was situated ...
... mediaeval castle hall it was usual to have the kitchen at the lower or entrance end of the hall , but in the keeps it often had to be at the other end . It may be taken as a general rule that in most castles the well was situated ...
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... mediaeval buildings , and communication between the rooms was often by means of timber pent - houses , like the alleys of a cloister , passing along the outer faces of the walls ( compare the " loggias " of the early timber halls ) and ...
... mediaeval buildings , and communication between the rooms was often by means of timber pent - houses , like the alleys of a cloister , passing along the outer faces of the walls ( compare the " loggias " of the early timber halls ) and ...
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