The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 38
... original , as there is a Norman fireplace remaining . The rooms are very long and narrow , and altogether it must have been a most uncomfor- table keep to live in . Some of the external pilasters are narrow and some broad , and it seems ...
... original , as there is a Norman fireplace remaining . The rooms are very long and narrow , and altogether it must have been a most uncomfor- table keep to live in . Some of the external pilasters are narrow and some broad , and it seems ...
Page 38
... original pitched one and dividing up the top floor into two . Guildford in Surrey ( 32 ) , Bridgenorth in Shropshire ( badly wrecked after the Civil War ) and Prudhoe in Northumber- land are examples of such keeps , the first being ...
... original pitched one and dividing up the top floor into two . Guildford in Surrey ( 32 ) , Bridgenorth in Shropshire ( badly wrecked after the Civil War ) and Prudhoe in Northumber- land are examples of such keeps , the first being ...
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... original large rectangular motte - and - baileys similar to those constructed by William the Conqueror in 1068 and the following years . It had been enlarged with an outer bailey beyond the motte in " hour - glass " fashion , and a ...
... original large rectangular motte - and - baileys similar to those constructed by William the Conqueror in 1068 and the following years . It had been enlarged with an outer bailey beyond the motte in " hour - glass " fashion , and a ...
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