The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 54
... passage . This passage was afterwards walled up and the tower turned into a keep , but the cracked masonry where the blocking was effected still shows where the great arches were originally ( 48 ) . The important castle of Richmond in ...
... passage . This passage was afterwards walled up and the tower turned into a keep , but the cracked masonry where the blocking was effected still shows where the great arches were originally ( 48 ) . The important castle of Richmond in ...
Page 86
... passage through its lower storey . The same square towers remained through the thirteenth century , but when projecting wall - towers came into use the gate- towers were made to project externally to match them . The next development ...
... passage through its lower storey . The same square towers remained through the thirteenth century , but when projecting wall - towers came into use the gate- towers were made to project externally to match them . The next development ...
Page 90
... passage , such as exists at Manorbier in Pembroke . Later still the chains were attached to the ends of two arms which projected from above the arch of the gate ( the slots for these may often be seen in the walls of our later castle ...
... passage , such as exists at Manorbier in Pembroke . Later still the chains were attached to the ends of two arms which projected from above the arch of the gate ( the slots for these may often be seen in the walls of our later castle ...
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