The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 39
... square towers , for a reason which will now be explained . It has been hinted earlier that the great danger to which the stone tower was liable was assault by mining . The classic example in this country is the siege of Rochester by ...
... square towers , for a reason which will now be explained . It has been hinted earlier that the great danger to which the stone tower was liable was assault by mining . The classic example in this country is the siege of Rochester by ...
Page 70
... square towers projecting at fre- quent intervals from their outer faces , and the example pre- sented by them was apparently followed by the castle - builders of this country when they began to build the high " curtain " walls at the ...
... square towers projecting at fre- quent intervals from their outer faces , and the example pre- sented by them was apparently followed by the castle - builders of this country when they began to build the high " curtain " walls at the ...
Page 72
... square tower as much more convenient for accommodation ( after the castellan had learned to use the inside of wall - towers ) , but , generally speaking , the standard type of castle wall of the thirteenth century took the form of lofty ...
... square tower as much more convenient for accommodation ( after the castellan had learned to use the inside of wall - towers ) , but , generally speaking , the standard type of castle wall of the thirteenth century took the form of lofty ...
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