The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... ruins , their broken walls softened with dark veils of ivy ; while others , less aesthetic and more practical in their tastes , prefer to see walls and towers rising stark and grim , as fortresses should be , proud in their ruined ...
... ruins , their broken walls softened with dark veils of ivy ; while others , less aesthetic and more practical in their tastes , prefer to see walls and towers rising stark and grim , as fortresses should be , proud in their ruined ...
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... ruins of the domestic buildings within our castles , as at Bodiam ( 74 ) , but few noteworthy examples are to be seen . On the other hand , some castellans built really large chapels within their castles and sometimes founded in them ...
... ruins of the domestic buildings within our castles , as at Bodiam ( 74 ) , but few noteworthy examples are to be seen . On the other hand , some castellans built really large chapels within their castles and sometimes founded in them ...
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... ruins of such castles as remain to us it seems an almost hopeless task to try to conjure up the days that are gone from us , whose ancestors paced those courts and wall- tops , feasted in those empty halls and slept betimes in those ...
... ruins of such castles as remain to us it seems an almost hopeless task to try to conjure up the days that are gone from us , whose ancestors paced those courts and wall- tops , feasted in those empty halls and slept betimes in those ...
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