The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 36
... staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase to any hall - keep in the country , entirely enclosed by high walls and most elaborately orna- mented on its outer face and round its lower doorway ( 35 ) ...
... staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase to any hall - keep in the country , entirely enclosed by high walls and most elaborately orna- mented on its outer face and round its lower doorway ( 35 ) ...
Page 39
... staircase in his keeps , as the old square angles in which they used to be situated had been done away with . He there- fore built a separate turret up the side to take the stair , which at Orford he balanced with two other similar ...
... staircase in his keeps , as the old square angles in which they used to be situated had been done away with . He there- fore built a separate turret up the side to take the stair , which at Orford he balanced with two other similar ...
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... staircase was necessary . It will be noticed that the staircases of Rochester , Hedingham and the later tower at Scarborough were defended near their lower extremities by arched gateways . At Newcastle the unusual length of the stair ...
... staircase was necessary . It will be noticed that the staircases of Rochester , Hedingham and the later tower at Scarborough were defended near their lower extremities by arched gateways . At Newcastle the unusual length of the stair ...
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