The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 54
... outer angles of the keep are splayed off so that it looks like a square keep on the inside of the castle and an octagonal one , like Henry II's experiment at Chilham , on the outside . Unfortunately most of the outer side of this fine ...
... outer angles of the keep are splayed off so that it looks like a square keep on the inside of the castle and an octagonal one , like Henry II's experiment at Chilham , on the outside . Unfortunately most of the outer side of this fine ...
Page 72
... outer walls instead of scattering the hall , chamber , chapel and various offices all over the interior of the castle . There- after the internally projecting towers were found to be in the and so they were cut off flush inside and only ...
... outer walls instead of scattering the hall , chamber , chapel and various offices all over the interior of the castle . There- after the internally projecting towers were found to be in the and so they were cut off flush inside and only ...
Page 84
... outer walls of their halls where the strong curtain has proved too much of a task for the stone - robbers . Such is the case at Manorbier in Pembroke , and the very fine hall at Newark - upon - Trent still has its outer wall and one ...
... outer walls of their halls where the strong curtain has proved too much of a task for the stone - robbers . Such is the case at Manorbier in Pembroke , and the very fine hall at Newark - upon - Trent still has its outer wall and one ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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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