The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 32
... shows the transitional style . The strip " buttresses " are present , but the broadening out of the angle pilasters and the special circular turret for the north - east stair show the depar ture from the old wooden technique towards the ...
... shows the transitional style . The strip " buttresses " are present , but the broadening out of the angle pilasters and the special circular turret for the north - east stair show the depar ture from the old wooden technique towards the ...
Page 39
... shows how this was done . First a tunnel was driven across the angle to cut it off from the tower and then the whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a ...
... shows how this was done . First a tunnel was driven across the angle to cut it off from the tower and then the whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a ...
Page 70
... shows allures on a castle wall . The best way , however , of efficiently commanding the whole external face of a ... show its exceptionally early date . Its walls , forty - five feet high , are surrounded by twelve square wall - towers ...
... shows allures on a castle wall . The best way , however , of efficiently commanding the whole external face of a ... show its exceptionally early date . Its walls , forty - five feet high , are surrounded by twelve square wall - towers ...
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