The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 28
... raised over a storage basement . Up to the end of the tenth century these buildings were probably all of timber . It is thought that the reason why so few stone domestic buildings were erected prior to the year 1000 was the popular ...
... raised over a storage basement . Up to the end of the tenth century these buildings were probably all of timber . It is thought that the reason why so few stone domestic buildings were erected prior to the year 1000 was the popular ...
Page 38
... raised on a basement , then reorganised and raised to the dignity of a great tower of masonry . The scale and dignity of these great towers must have appealed to the minds of the Norman feudal lords , and from the end of the eleventh ...
... raised on a basement , then reorganised and raised to the dignity of a great tower of masonry . The scale and dignity of these great towers must have appealed to the minds of the Norman feudal lords , and from the end of the eleventh ...
Page 76
... raised and crenellated so as to turn it into a sort of keep , the upper floor being , perhaps , the chamber . The absence of fireplaces is a noticeable feature of most early stone halls . The usual position for the fire in an early ...
... raised and crenellated so as to turn it into a sort of keep , the upper floor being , perhaps , the chamber . The absence of fireplaces is a noticeable feature of most early stone halls . The usual position for the fire in an early ...
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