The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... rising above the scarps of a river bank or nestling among trees in some sheltered valley . It may be that some of us are pleased to see our castles as ruins , their broken walls softened with dark veils of ivy ; while others , less ...
... rising above the scarps of a river bank or nestling among trees in some sheltered valley . It may be that some of us are pleased to see our castles as ruins , their broken walls softened with dark veils of ivy ; while others , less ...
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... Rising ( 24 ) the originally circular mound was extended to form an oval shape and later still its ditches were deepened and an enormous rampart raised around its rim . At Restormel in Cornwall , the castle has never outgrown its ...
... Rising ( 24 ) the originally circular mound was extended to form an oval shape and later still its ditches were deepened and an enormous rampart raised around its rim . At Restormel in Cornwall , the castle has never outgrown its ...
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... rising everywhere throughout the English Pale . Year by year the colonists were pushing westwards , their frontiers ever extending and the number of their castles ever increasing . Is it an Hibernianism to say that if you wish to see ...
... rising everywhere throughout the English Pale . Year by year the colonists were pushing westwards , their frontiers ever extending and the number of their castles ever increasing . Is it an Hibernianism to say that if you wish to see ...
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