The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 29
... sometimes there is even a small kitchen . In the mediaeval castle hall it was usual to have the kitchen at the lower or entrance end of the hall , but in the keeps it often had to be at the other end . It may be taken as a general rule ...
... sometimes there is even a small kitchen . In the mediaeval castle hall it was usual to have the kitchen at the lower or entrance end of the hall , but in the keeps it often had to be at the other end . It may be taken as a general rule ...
Page 31
... Sometimes , in later keeps the angles are thickened out slightly to allow more room for the staircases in what were ... sometimes becoming quite ornate , with really beautiful doors and windows and sometimes even fine arcaded exteriors ...
... Sometimes , in later keeps the angles are thickened out slightly to allow more room for the staircases in what were ... sometimes becoming quite ornate , with really beautiful doors and windows and sometimes even fine arcaded exteriors ...
Page 59
... sometimes find that where a tenant could not send his quota of knights he would pay the sum of two marks , or 26s . 8d . , which would enable his overlord to hire mercenaries for the same period . The king himself was , of course , the ...
... sometimes find that where a tenant could not send his quota of knights he would pay the sum of two marks , or 26s . 8d . , which would enable his overlord to hire mercenaries for the same period . The king himself was , of course , the ...
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