The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... probably nothing loth that he built his house of timber , for his ancestors had lived in wooden halls and his knowledge of timber construction was probably unequalled . There are three ways of building in timber . In some Central ...
... probably nothing loth that he built his house of timber , for his ancestors had lived in wooden halls and his knowledge of timber construction was probably unequalled . There are three ways of building in timber . In some Central ...
Page 25
... probably covered with shingles . The ends of the gables may have been ornamented with dragon - heads , relics of the piratical long- ships of the bad old days of the Norman castle - men . The only representations of early castle halls ...
... probably covered with shingles . The ends of the gables may have been ornamented with dragon - heads , relics of the piratical long- ships of the bad old days of the Norman castle - men . The only representations of early castle halls ...
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... probably quite simple structures until the twelfth century was drawing to its close . Let us for the time being , therefore , leave the more elaborate type of dwelling - house to consider its growth from first principles . Throughout ...
... probably quite simple structures until the twelfth century was drawing to its close . Let us for the time being , therefore , leave the more elaborate type of dwelling - house to consider its growth from first principles . Throughout ...
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