The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse unsuited to war ...
... Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse unsuited to war ...
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... Middle Ages in England was more and more mercantile and less and less feudal . Castle building ceased , partly under the effect of that social change but also , towards the end , under the effect of artillery which gradually compelled ...
... Middle Ages in England was more and more mercantile and less and less feudal . Castle building ceased , partly under the effect of that social change but also , towards the end , under the effect of artillery which gradually compelled ...
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... middle of the fourteenth century . The turreted gatehouse was the last survivor of the old military features in our mediaeval architecture , being retained throughout the Tudor period to give a sense of dignity to the entrances of great ...
... middle of the fourteenth century . The turreted gatehouse was the last survivor of the old military features in our mediaeval architecture , being retained throughout the Tudor period to give a sense of dignity to the entrances of great ...
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