The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 51
... royal castles . He is known to have constructed them at Hastings in Sussex and Tickhill in Yorkshire , and the example already noted at Arundel was his work . There are the remains of shell - keeps at Pickering in York- shire ...
... royal castles . He is known to have constructed them at Hastings in Sussex and Tickhill in Yorkshire , and the example already noted at Arundel was his work . There are the remains of shell - keeps at Pickering in York- shire ...
Page 98
... castles . As with the castles , most of these have been obliterated by the later stone walls , but in some ... royal castles to see that their garrisons , armaments and provisions were ... castles : Dover , 98 THE ENGLISH CASTLE.
... castles . As with the castles , most of these have been obliterated by the later stone walls , but in some ... royal castles to see that their garrisons , armaments and provisions were ... castles : Dover , 98 THE ENGLISH CASTLE.
Page 103
... royal castles of 1322 were adequate for the policing of the country , and the new Welsh castles could be relied upon to complete the pacification of the Principality . By the end of the thirteenth century the Norman land- owner had ...
... royal castles of 1322 were adequate for the policing of the country , and the new Welsh castles could be relied upon to complete the pacification of the Principality . By the end of the thirteenth century the Norman land- owner had ...
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