The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 15
... protected on two sides and a curved quadrant - shaped ditch cut joining these two sides would complete the defences of the place . This plan may be seen at Norham in Northumberland and Barnard in Durham . The same type of plan is met ...
... protected on two sides and a curved quadrant - shaped ditch cut joining these two sides would complete the defences of the place . This plan may be seen at Norham in Northumberland and Barnard in Durham . The same type of plan is met ...
Page 29
... protecting buttress . It is only in late keeps such as Scarborough that vertical flues are found passing upward ... protected by a crenellated parapet . The various floors were connected with the summit of the tower usually by two ...
... protecting buttress . It is only in late keeps such as Scarborough that vertical flues are found passing upward ... protected by a crenellated parapet . The various floors were connected with the summit of the tower usually by two ...
Page 69
... protected with high walls . " What are we to do ? " appealed one garrison plaintively , " the damned stones burst ... protect himself when he leaned out . This form of protection was called " hoarding , " and the holes where the ...
... protected with high walls . " What are we to do ? " appealed one garrison plaintively , " the damned stones burst ... protect himself when he leaned out . This form of protection was called " hoarding , " and the holes where the ...
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