The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 86
... structures in the years immedi- ately following the Conquest . The addition of stone walls , keeps , high curtains and towers made them into the castles we see to - day covering many of their sites , and these masonry additions and ...
... structures in the years immedi- ately following the Conquest . The addition of stone walls , keeps , high curtains and towers made them into the castles we see to - day covering many of their sites , and these masonry additions and ...
Page 89
... structure . The Constable's lodgings were sometimes on the upper floors of these structures . These great Edwardian gatehouses , with their two sturdy external towers and their two slender internal turrets , are perhaps the chief ...
... structure . The Constable's lodgings were sometimes on the upper floors of these structures . These great Edwardian gatehouses , with their two sturdy external towers and their two slender internal turrets , are perhaps the chief ...
Page 111
... structures had practically ceased in this country , but we find that throughout the next century great houses are ... structures , " bulwarks " ) along our hitherto almost defenceless southern shores . The arrangement of each of these ...
... structures had practically ceased in this country , but we find that throughout the next century great houses are ... structures , " bulwarks " ) along our hitherto almost defenceless southern shores . The arrangement of each of these ...
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